ABSTRACT
The introduction discusses the concept of homemaking and the way it is used in the scholarly literature across different disciplines. It argues that the concept, while potentially useful, is limited because it is unrooted from culture and community. The introduction argues that homemaking is a useful concept to reveal the dynamics of internal group bonding, to accomplish integration and to remain part of their diaspora, yet the concept needs to be reworked to overcome its limitations in understanding the coexisting processes of settlement in the new society and the continued entanglements with the diaspora. The introduction offers a new perspective on homemaking that captures ethnogenesis, integration and diasporic bonding at once as the human condition of most ethnic groups all over the world, labelled as the ‘ethnic condition’.
