Feeling at home across time and place: A study of Ecuadorians in three European cities

International migration creates significant dilemmas for people to feel at home or not and a meaningful field investigate this emotional experience. Using cross-country survey of Ecuadorians in Madrid, Milan London (n = 1093), we explore how spatial, relational, infrastructural variables influence the sense feeling place. We link these aspects length residence location's ‘connectedness’ Ecuador. Immigrants' increases over time, regardless location scale. However, is positively associated with connectedness The importance social relations (especially inviting friends) characteristics place also contrary nostalgic homeland reminders. Overall, attach their local context settlement, more than homeland. Results are remarkably similar across genders.