“No Place Like Home” Paper presented at the Association of Social Anthropologists Conference “Whose Home?”, Auckland, NZ, November 2003

Based on PhD research, this paper argues that the re-entry of international students into their countries of origin profoundly challenges their notions of ‘longing for belonging’ and forces them to reconstitute their ‘home’-making. Using a framework of transnationalism, this paper argues that, for these international students, home is no longer place-bound (if ever it was); that intimate relationships may exist beyond geographical propinquity; and that rather than migration (and re-migration) disrupting the relationship between self-identity and ‘home’, it can instead allow for new discoveries for new ‘homes’. Read the full paper here at ASA_Conference_Paper_November_2002.doc (Word 72KB)

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