Homing: a category for research on space appropriation and ‘home-oriented’ mobilities

This article is a conceptual invitation to homing, revisit the everyday social experience of home as situated manifestation lifelong needs and desires for space appropriation. Through acts homing their accumulation over time, people articulate tension ‘move’ towards place or condition they construct home, engaging in dialectic relation between experienced aspired socio-material, relational cultural features home. Drawing on consolidated use natural sciences, emergent ones my fieldwork with migrants refugees, I outline framework research (im)mobilities. understand set home-related routines practices, an underlying existential struggle toward good-enough state being at This, empirically, matter (in)capabilities exclusivities, structures inequality. Homing ultimately reframe approach becoming, rather than only being, feeling, making. While this conceptualization aims speak ordinary attachment appropriation, it assumes particular relevance migration mobility studies. category means looking lived attempt tread fine line past ascriptions future-oriented potentialities, visible group, societal inequalities.