ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a series of different mapping practices, how maps can be used to represent a diasporic knowledge of space and how they can help in its navigation. The Aboriginal songlines hint at the type of mapping practice required for migrant lives, it is also a question considered by Doina Petrescu in her article on Romanian migrants who move back and forth across old and new Europe in pursuit of material wealth. Walking as a form of everyday practice has a history of being used as a way of understanding the city through experience, ranging from the purposeless nature of the stroll to the walk as march that becomes a deliberate means of protest. In mapping diasporic agencies, narrative and naming could also be described as the relating of stories, the representation of snatched conversations and snippets of gossip. Tracing and drawing as mapping techniques are especially useful in representing such trans-local connections and experiences spatially.
