ABSTRACT
The state, purportedly ‘home’ for citizens, claims to be protecting such a nucleus when hospitality is denied to foreigners, immigrants and strangers. Home implies a site, or grounding, for economic practices: practices that are relational, creative and productive. Home is constituted in multiple instances and in multiple ways, whereas a sense of home is experienced as a singularity always in the plurality. Home is nothing but a confrontation with home-less-ness, with precarity and groundlessness. Rhetorically aspiring towards reclaiming ‘nation’ as a secure, predictable home offers a ground for, and resolution to, the precarity people are experiencing. Home is constituted in multiple instances and in multiple ways, whereas a sense of home is experienced as a singularity always in the plurality. Home is always home as something different, but guided by a familiar, yet unsettled, sense of yearning.
