Abstract
ABSTRACT The concept of home is complex and multi-layered, with overlapping meanings that are often used interchangeably. Following a processual understanding of home, I focus on homing as practices that take place in everyday life and are not spatially limited to the dwelling. Specifically, I am interested in a heterogeneous group of temporary residents who live in cities for a limited period of time. Drawing on biographical interviews, I illustrate how temporary residents create places of belonging and construct their homes. Temporary residents use diverse homing practices to turn their dwelling into a home despite the limited duration of their presence. In addition to one’s own place of dwelling, other places of well-being are established that serve as either supplementary or substitute home-like settings. In this context, other persons take a predominant role, so that in addition to home as places and practices, a social conceptualization of home is proposed.
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