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Migration and home are less opposite than mutually interdependent notions. Homing itself can result in quite different claims – towards belonging or control – depending on the underlying views and understandings of home. Sayings like “one can never return home” assume different meanings and implications accordingly. Migrants’ ways of homing, driven as they are by the need to question what is usually taken for granted, are revealing of the material and relational bases of the home experience at large. This leaves two questions to be relaunched: first, the bases of a new research agenda on the ways of constructing, emplacing and circulating home, related to migration; second, the potential implications of the migration-home nexus at a practical, policy-relevant level, as well as in other fields of research across social sciences.
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Of course, there is far more to the temporality of home than the postponement of it, as Chap. 4 has shown. Whatever the material background, major biographical variations can generally be appreciated in the ways of emplacing home and in the meanings associated with it. Even when a given place is home-like in the sense of being a repository of the past memories (for instance, those of one’s childhood), the same place need not be framed as a home-like dwelling at present; and even when a dwelling or a community feels like home here and now, it need not retain the same attribute in future. The spatiality and the temporality of what looks or feels like home, and is approached as home-like, are mutable and evolving over the life course. The relationality of home, instead, is what really persists across the temporal frames and the spatial contexts in which home is embedded.
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Boccagni, P. (2017). Conclusion. In: Migration and the Search for Home. Mobility & Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58802-9_6
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