Home Across Borders: An Ethnography of Sri Lankan Immigrants in Australia

This book studies how transnational migrants create a sense of home in their host countries. It draws on case studies of Sri Lankan migrants living in Australia to argue that 'home' is an existential experience rather than a fixed entity. The author looks at how the sense of home arises as a fresh category which is critical in defining one’s existentiality in the host society.

Going beyond the conventional methodological approach of an ethnographer objectivizing other’s sense of home into fi...