ABSTRACT
A change of usual residential address and the concrete relocation of ‘the home’ are inherent to traditional conceptualisations of internal migration (e.g. Boyle Halfacree and Robinson, 1998). In this sense, housing-related decisions, negotiations, compromises, and experiences are universal dimensions of all forms of internal, sub-national migration. Of course, this is not surprising given one of the essential physical needs (and, indeed, a human right) of individuals and families is ‘shelter’ (Smith and Mallinson, 1997) and ‘somewhere to call home’ (Blunt and Dowling, 2006), be it temporary or more long term.
