ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the intersection between home and migration in light of contemporary theorizations on geographical scale, as well as own ethnographic research with South American migrants in Madrid. It analyses some of the ways in which scalar thinking both in everyday practice and scholarly analysis is used in relation to home and migration. It is guided by the intuition that examining home within and beyond the household can greatly benefit from engaging with the rich conceptual repertoire of contemporary theorizations of scale. The chapter is organized into two main sections. The one discusses a series of examples from the scholarly literature on home within and beyond the dwelling place. The second draws on ethnographic work conducted with South American migrants in Madrid. Scales of home constitute representations about the extent to which home-related practices, relationships and experiences occur in a given place.
