ABSTRACT
This chapter examines participants’ reflections on their future migration plans and possibilities of return to Vietnam. It focuses on scholarship which recognises the ambivalent, shifting nature of migrants’ ideas of home and belonging, and which acknowledges return as one element within a process of ‘continual dialogues and connections’ between the locations of departure and migration. The chapter addresses how participants navigate between the seemingly contradictory principles in the context of their migration to East London. It discusses the ways in which participants’ future homes and mobilities are inseparable from the wider power relations that govern migration and determine the extent to which individuals are free to move across national borders. The chapter explores geopolitical aspects of home in more detail, connecting an analytical focus on home as material, imaginative and emotional with contemporary understandings of relationships between home and power relations.
