Abstract
AbstractBased on 3 years of research with Nepali Bhutanese refugees in the Dallas–Fort Worth region of the southern US, this article asks how house ownership affects the meaning of home in third-country resettlement. While research participants initially depicted the owned house as a recovery of the pre-exile home, their narratives shifted when many started considering moves to the northern states of Ohio and Pennsylvania. In follow-up interviews based on future plans, an alternative image of home emerged based on the ability to relocate and seek better futures. In this spatially mobile and temporally open reconceptualization, home did not mean an end to displacement, but rather a continuous negotiation with conditions of alienation experienced as migrants in Bhutan and refugees in Nepal and the US. This shift suggests conceiving of refugee resettlement less as a romance of overcoming the liminality of exile, and more as a tragedy of enduring displacement.
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