ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on some specific forms of temporary accommodation, such as refugee camps, reception centres and informal transit settlements. They are used as exemplary case studies with which to address the issue of the interlacing of home with mobility and immobility, since dwelling is intertwined with temporariness, and mobility is an ever-present horizon over which people have little, if no, control. It intends to challenge essentialist notions of both ‘home’ and ‘being away from home’. The chapter introduces mobility studies and sheds light on the homing practices and experiences of privileged mobile people. It introduces the analytical filter of inequality with respect to mobility regimes and outlines the current scenarios where, for a relevant part of the global population, mobility is both forced and forbidden.
