ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the complex, multi-scalar relationships between home, work and the city among Vietnamese people in East London. It shows how home is made and re-made by individuals through diverse combinations of relationships, objects and practices. The book explores the diversity of objects and practices that are involved in recreating a sense of home. It demonstrates the changing and sometimes contested nature of home for those in conditions of protracted displacement or exile, and emphasises the temporal and spatial dimensions of home. The book highlights the need for understandings of super-diversity that also engage with urban dwellings and home-making and their roles in producing the complex mosaic of the city. It outlines the importance of considering material, emotional, imaginative and structural dimensions of home alongside and in relation to one another.
