ABSTRACT

This article scrutinises the ways in which pupils who have experienced transnational migration construct ‘home’ and the unmaking of ‘home’. Researchers have argued that migrants’ perspectives on belonging are seldom granted scholarly attention. Here, we seek to redress this oversight by inquiring about the ways in which newly arrived migrants define their (un)homeliness in Sweden in the context of astate-sponsored introductory language programme. The focus is on how these pupils themselves define the notion of home, their sense of belonging, and what they envision as necessary to achieve in order to become part of the national community. What emerges in these stories is aconstant negotiation to fill the idea of ‘home’ with content. These negotiations take place in apresent, but always in relation to both apast and an imagined future– in which homeliness appears in different ways, with different meanings.

摘要

本文探讨了经历过跨国移民的学生如何构建“家”以及如何破坏“家”。研究人员认为，移民对归属感的看法很少得到学术界的关注。在这里，我们试图通过询问新抵达的移民在国家资助的介绍性语言课程的背景下如何定义他们在瑞典的（不）家庭生活，来纠正这种疏忽。重点是这些学生自己如何定义家的概念、他们的归属感，以及他们为了成为国家社区的一部分而需要实现的目标。这些故事中出现的是不断的协商，以充实“家”的概念。这些谈判目前正在进行，