Travel implies an itinerary from a fixed point of departure to an equally stable point of arrival, whereas migrancy 'involves a movement in which neither the points of departure nor those of arrival are immutable or certain'. For a migrant, therefore, 'the promise of a homecoming-completing the story, domesticating the detour – becomes an impossibility'. In many ways, the war that tore Yugoslavia apart was precisely a war about the notion of 'home', and this notion was there at the beginning and at the end of the war. Bammer draws attention to the analogy between the concept of 'home' and that of 'nation': both are constructed, and in both instances the act of telling the story of it creates the 'people' that belongs to it. Of all communist regimes Yugoslavia was only one to grant its citizens the right to travel freely.