Introduction : shifting meanings of home / Mechthild Hart, Miriam Ben-Yoseph -- Facing aliens under globalization : changing meanings of home for Taiwanese employers of foreign domestics / Shu-Ju Ada Cheng -- Home as a locus of work and career / Lisa K. Gundry -- Convents as homes / Enrique Alberto Arias -- Where love flies free : women, home, and writing in Cook County Jail / Ann Folwell Stanford -- In the absence of home : the meaning of homelessness / Susanne M. Dumbleton -- Land of California? : the ambiguities of "Sweet Home Chicago" / John Kimsey -- The long road home : migratory experience and the construction of the self / Frida Kerner Furman -- Longing for home : displacement, memory and identity / Miriam Ben-Yoseph -- The nomad at home / Mechthild Hart.