Migration and the Search for Home	4
	Series Editors’ Foreword	7
	Acknowledgements	9
	Praise for Migration and the Search for Home	11
	About the Author	12
	Contents	13
	List of Figures	14
	List of Tables	15
	Introduction	16
	1 A New Lens on the Migration-home Nexus	23
	Home as a Question for Social Theory and Research	25
	Conceptual and Definitional Issues: What is Specific of Home?	25
	Through Materiality, and Beyond: Home as a Special Relationship with Place	32
	On the Irremediably Prescriptive Bases of Home	35
	Home as a Lens and a Research Subject for Migration Studies	37
	On the Shifting Place(s) of Home in Migrant Life Trajectories	38
	A Case for the Migration-Home Nexus	41
	Homing: A New Research Agenda on Migrants’ Search for Home	44
	Notes	49
	2 Researching Migrants’ Home	51
	Researching into Home: What, Why and How	53
	Researching Migrants’ Home(s): the Role of Personal and Biographical Accounts	58
	Researching Migrants’ Home(s): Direct Observation and Ways Ahead	63
	Notes	68
	3 Migration and Home over Space	70
	Is Home Portable? Displacement and Place-Making in the Migrant Experience	71
	Still Immobile: Migrant Houses as Markers of Achievement, or Lack Thereof	76
	On the Boundaries and Scales of Migrants’ Home Experience	83
	Note	85
	4 Migration and Home over Time	86
	For a Time-Sensitive Optic on Migrants’ Home Experience	88
	Home as the Beginning and as Embodiment of the Past	91
	On the Biographical Evolution of Migrants’ Home Experience: Loss, Retention and Beyond	95
	Homing Between Past, Present and Future: Temporal (Dis)continuities in Migrants’ Sense of Home	98
	Notes	105
	5 Migrants’ Home as a Political Issue	107
	Why Home is a Political Question (and Migration Casts Light Upon It)	109
	Homeland: The Four Walls of (Natives’) Home?	111
	The State as Home? Domopolitics, and Beyond	115
	Home in Migration-Related Mobilization	119
	Notes	123
	6 Conclusion	125
	Kinds of Home, Kinds of Homing	126
	Homing, from Migrants to the Sedentary and Natives	128
	Towards a New Research Agenda on the Migration-Home Nexus	130
	And then What? The Migration-Home Nexus as a Practically Relevant Matter	132
	Note	133
	References	134
	Index	148