ABSTRACT In this paper, I open a discussion on internal bordering practices, starting from an unexpected space: the home. I delve into instances where newly arrived migrants, despite living in the city center, effectively reside (at) the border. My aim is to comprehend borders both as regimes and as technologies of power that manufacture everyday life, even within ostensibly “private” and “secure” spaces. I begin by examining four distinct “homes” of newly arrived migrants in Athens, each representing different configurations of border regimes over the past two decades. However, anchoring the analysis in these different homes does not confine the focus solely to the local or micro scale. Rather, I contend that these “humblest” spaces of everyday life serve as entry points for analyzing bordering practices, power relations, subjugation and subversion across multiple and intertwined sociospatial scales.