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This essay discusses the book "Uprootings/Regroundings" by Silvia Federici. The book examines the relationship between home and migration and how these two concepts are constantly changing. The book argues that home is not a fixed location, but rather a concept that is constantly moving and changing. The book also discusses how those who stay and those who leave are constantly interacting with each other.
"Home" is a universal symbol of comfort and stability. When we move away, we are faced with issues of displacement, insecurity, and loss of identity. At a time, however, when global expansion and migration increase daily, the idea of home is increasingly vexed. What is the relationship between leaving home and imagining home? And having left home, what might it mean to return? Who moves and who stays? What interaction is there between those who stay and those who arrive and leave?
Uprootings/Regroundings is the only postcolonial study to pose these questions. It moves away from the unhelpful view of home as a fixed place, to interrogate who and what it is that is "on the move." The book reveals that movement does not only happen when one leaves home, and that homes are not always fixed in a single location. This is the first full study of our complex relationship with home.
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