ABSTRACT
This chapter offers empirical contributions to our understanding and theorizing of place attachment, home, mobility and belonging in a globalized world. Although much has been said and written about globalization and responses to it, and about place attachment, mobility and belonging, it has only rarely been from a gendered perspective. Yet these processes are profoundly gendered, although in different ways in particular contexts and times. Gender is not the only salient dimension in these experiences of places and associations of belonging: also salient are class, ethnicity, age, sexuality and so forth, and therefore it is essential to consider all of these dimensions in order to fully understand the interrelationship between place, identity and everyday life. The dimensions most in focus in our analyses below, however, are gender, nationality and parenthood, which appear particularly salient in our study.
