Introduction: shifting meanings of home.
The studies and narratives collected in this special volume acknowledge "home" as a complex, ambiguous notion and reality. The contributors pay tribute to different ways of experiencing home, and to multiple connections to place and time. They illustrate how home is a social edifice, how it embodies different meanings and values, how it demarcates individual and social or national identities, and how a longing for home permeates experiences of homelessness as well as cultural, spatial, linguistic, and economic transitions.
Hart
Mechthild
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DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 60604, USA. mhart@depaul.edu
Ben-Yoseph
Miriam
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D001290:Attitude; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D012931:Social Environment; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000523:psychology*