Conclusion

Abstract

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.