ABSTRACT
This chapter is about the effects of transnational mobility on feeling at home or not at home, at home in more than one place, or homeless. Whilst we introduced transnational geographies of home in the previous chapter in relation to imperial resettlement and home-making, we now turn to the unprecedented scale of migration and resettlement in the contemporary world. Thus the chapter considers home from the perspective of people who migrate across national borders: those who leave home for primarily economic reasons, those who are forced to do so because of war, persecution or dispossession, and the effects of migration on those who remain at home. We return to some of the themes that we have discussed in previous chapters, including domestic architecture and domestic work, the material and symbolic intersections of home and homeland, and the profound and longterm implications of dispossession and displacement. Building on our earlier discussion, we consider the ways in which material and imaginative geographies of home, and the lived experiences of home on a domestic scale, are mobilized, reproduced and recast through transnational migration and resettlement as well as transnational circuits of capital and ideas. We argue that transnational homes are shaped by the interplay of both mobile and located homes and identities and by the processes and practices of home-making both within particular places and across transnational space.
