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British expatriate belongings: mobile homes and transnational homing

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posted on 2023-06-07, 17:17 authored by Katie WalshKatie Walsh
This article explores the mobile homes and transnational homing of British expatriates in Dubai. In the article, I analyze ordinary domestic objects that play a special role in the homemaking practices of their expatriate owners, drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic participant observation and home-based interviews. I argue that thinking about belonging through belongings is productive because it is empirically and theoretically attentive to the way in which home is experienced simultaneously as both a material and imaaterial, lived and imagined, localized and (trans)national space of belonging. Furthermore, the homes of expatriates make explicit the fluidity and multiplicity of home as process. This article focuses on three things found in British expatriate homes in Dubai: a painting, a plastic bowl and a DVD.

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Home Cultures

ISSN

1740-6315

Publisher

Berg Publishers

Issue

2

Volume

3

Page range

123-44

Pages

22.0

Department affiliated with

  • Geography Publications

Notes

Home Cultures is a new journal (Sage) devoted to the interdisciplinary and comparative study of domestic space.

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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