ABSTRACT
Chapter 10 on multiple dislocated homes takes the notion of home beyond the fixity of the locale, to explore the movement of home across transnational borders (Ahmed et al., 2003). This chapter includes the making of home/s in situations of skilled migration as well as forced dislocation as experienced by asylum seekers and refugees. Mobility and migration can affectively, materially and symbolically transform understandings of home and belonging (Ahmed et al., 2003, p. 4). In the making and unmaking of transnational homes and hybridised cultures, homes can be multiple and fluid, blurring distinctions between the ‘here’ and the ‘there’ (Ahmed et al., 2003, p. 4). This chapter presents research that moves beyond assumptions about the residential fixity of home, to a sense of home as being imaginings from the past in the revisioning of the future, which includes classed experiences of skilled and commuter migrants. This chapter also covers research on forced dislocations from home/s as experienced by refugees and asylum seekers. It points to social work involvement in transnational homes and the reconstitution of home post migration in resettlement work.
