Making a home in the world: Clothes as mnemonic devices through which refugees experience home in flight and resettlement

How do refugees experience home not just in the country of settlement but also along their journeys flight? Departing from theories that see as something which is left behind displacement, this paper explores how clothes act important mnemonic devices, storing and archiving memories different times places, whilst connecting people to new places en route. Through in-depth analysis two refugees’ stories, highlights a onetime accomplishment lived are continuously involved in, especially upheaval transformation they search for safer place be world. Clothes, one few materials carry, become central only semiotic carrying narratives home, sensual through sensations carried, transformed, negotiated.