Strangers everywhere? Home and unhomeliness in newly arrived pupils’ narratives on exile

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