ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the diverse pathways, practices and identities of skilled migrants over time and through space. By examining participants' everyday and embodied homemaking practices, the chapter reveals some of the ways people come to inhabit homes and communities near and far through performative, narrativised and multisensory ways of knowing, connecting and remembering. It shows that throughout their lives, participants travel in a range of ways. The research informing the chapter shifts the focus from migrant categories to the dynamism of migration pathways, practices, identities and stories over an individual's life course. The chapter provides examples of the ways participants traverse multiple physical locations across the globe, disrupting categories of migrant, resident, tourist and traveller over their lives. It then considers some of the ways places and mobilities co-exist in creative tension through participants' daily practices in more localised spaces, which involved both physical and imagined journeys.
