ABSTRACT
Even if individual people have moved, the concept of home as a place and in terms of social belonging has largely persisted.
This is changing now because of the sheer amount of people moving away from their ancestral home, because of their long-term perspective as members of new urban societies, and also because of the unprecedented degree to which the places themselves are changing under the forces of modernization and urbanization. With our research in suburban Guangzhou, we want to shed light on the multitude of ways that “home” is reconstructed in this setting and on the interrelatedness of these ways. The setting we chose is intriguing because of the overlap of competing and interrelated claims of home and the mechanisms how these claims are negotiated and enforced.
