New forms of transnational mobility and diasporic belonging have become emblematic of a supposed 'global' condition of uprootedness.

What is the relationship between leaving home and the imagining of home itself? And having left home, what might it mean to return? How can we re-think what it means to be grounded, or to stay put? Who moves and who stays? What interaction is there between those who stay and those who arrive and leave? Focusing on differences of race, gender, class and sexuality, the contributors reveal how the movements of bodies and communities are intrinsic to the making of homes, nations, identities and boundaries. They reflect on the different experiences of being at home, leaving home, and going home. They also explore ways in which attachment to place and locality can be secured--as well as challenged--through the movements that make up our dwelling places.

'An excellent collection of essays that are truly linked by a common theme of reconceptualizing notions of home and migration, and understanding these realities in relation to each other.'Sarah Michelle Stohlman, University of Southern Carolina, in Focaal (45), 2005'[the book] deserves a speical place on the shelf of any migration scholar.'Sarah Michelle Stohlman, University of Southern Carolina, in Focaal (45), 2005