Mapping Geographies of Home in the Tunisian Diaspora: The London case

The intersection between mobility and home is at the centre of the developing research field of emotion and migration. Particularly, the emergence of transnationalism as a major approach offers fresh perspectives on how migrants maintain ties to their places of origin, while creating new place attachments. Addressing this in the case of Tunisian Londoners is part of a pioneering research project on this community in Britain. Drawing on qualitative case study material, this article engages with the spatio-temporal dimensions of home in the data; unpacks study participants’ cognitive-emotive repertoires of home; and maps their framework of self-identification.