Brings together work from cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholars researching home, migration and belonging, using their original research to argue for greater attention to how feeling and emotion is deeply embedded in social structures and power relations.

Introduction 1 (Hannah Jones, Emma Jackson and Alex Rhys-Taylor) Introduction 2 (Les Back and Michael Keith) Part 1: Local Worlds/Cosmopolitan Formations: London and/in the World 1. Emotion, Location and Urban Regeneration 2. Intersemiotic Fruit: Mangoes, Multiculture and the City 3. The Pigeon and the Weave: the Middle Classes, Dis/comfort and the Multicultural City Part 2: Places that Don't Exist: England(s) and Elsewheres 4. Uncomfortable Feelings: How Local Belonging Works on Local Policy Makers 5. Dread Culture: Music and Identity in a British Inner City 6. Ambivalent Affect/Emotion: Conflicted Discourses of Multicultural Belonging Part 3: Displacement, its Aftermaths and Futures: Tracing Connections to, from and through Europe 7. Post-Political Narratives and Emotions: Dealing with Discursive Displacement in Everyday Life 8. 'This bridge is just like the one in Visegrad!': Dwelling, Embodying and Doing Home Across Space 9. Diaspora Tours and Place Attachment: a Unique Configuration of Emotion and Location Part 4: Cosmopolitanism in the Home: North American Belongings 10. Crime Watch: Mediating Belonging and the Politics of Place in Inner-City Jamaica 11. Agency, Ambivalence and Emotions in a Public Housing Anti-Demolition Struggle 12. Revolutionary Affect: Feeling Modern in Mexico City 13. Conclusion