ABSTRACT
This chapter explores temporal dimensions of home-making and migration. It seeks to investigate migrants’ home-making from a perspective that puts temporality at the centre. The chapter argues that the timing of domestic life tends to be framed by temporal regimes. It consists of two moves. First, it locates the problematic of temporalities of home by bringing into focus a series of conceptual and theoretical contributions from the aforementioned literature. It then analyses the everyday temporalities in a household to investigate how degrees of privacy and intimacy are produced through temporal regimes. The chapter shows that ways of representing the past in one’s current place of dwelling, hopes of returning to an idealized homeand ways of actualizing the future while searching for home constitute significant temporal dimensions that inform and shape migrants’ sense of home.
