ABSTRACT
This chapter derives from dialogue about migrations, past and present homes, and how and where a new home can be created. Home might vary as a place, real or imagined, at different times in our lives: traumatically so for many, in forced migration. A dialogical starting point was the rise of fundamentalisms—Islamic, fascist etc.—chronicled in Linden’s work. Stefan was exercised by the attractions of Islamic fundamentalism to someone close, back home, in Romania. Linden began narrative research on the continuing trauma of migration, over generations, in families of Israeli Jewish and Palestinian educators. The place and nature of home is constantly negotiated. Stefan was living in London, but Brexit and other pressures led him and his young family to return ‘home’ to ‘beautiful Bucovina,’ now divided between Romania and Ukraine. Home here was deeply layered by troubled history and family divisions. Exploring what home meant for one Palestinian woman and an Israeli Jewish man was similarly complex. Fiction is used to illuminate the complexity, while a narrative imagination is forged in a multi-disciplinary, actual and imagined adult education space: on a border between learning and therapy, silence and voice, power and powerlessness, past and present, life and death.
