Unhomely Alliances: The Coalitional Possibility of Migrant Homes

Feminist scholars have argued that contesting the unity of the discourse of “home” is the foundation for building non-identity-based community. For many migrants, home is often a space one cannot return to, making it a generative site to study alliance-building practices that are not attached to similarity, such as a common nation or identity. Migrants and the multiple metaphorical and material homes they occupy allow for disruptions in imagining home as a space of stability and comfort. This paper focuses on an ethnographic case study of a diasporic organization to illustrate how the conscious and collective practice of questioning “home” allows for nontraditional alliances.