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This chapter fuses my story as a refugee and an immigrant with a review of interdisciplinary discourses around home, culture, and identity to unravel the meaning behind the “and” in the saying “a human is a place and the place is neglected.” None of the three dominant paradigms of thought that have guided scholarship around movement fully captured my story: assimilation, transnationalism, and resistance. As a way to quench my thirst for deciphering what home means in displacement, I connected with refugees in Cyprus and immigrant and minority groups in Minnesota. Trusting me with their experience of absence, helped me embrace the idea of homes as transbodied spaces produced at the junctures of presence and absence. Although absent, home mediators, from scholars to advocates can impact people's right to home.
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Hadjiyanni, T. (2019). The “and”. In: The Right to Home. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59957-5_2
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