#11830. A place migrants would call home: open-ended constructions and social determinants over time among Ecuadorians in three European cities

July 2026publication date
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Law;
Demography;
Sociology and Political Science;
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty;
Geography, Planning and Development;
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Abstract:
Is there a place in particular that international migrants would call home? How do they talk about it, where does it lie, and what characteristics is it expected to have, given their demographics and patterns of settlement? Similar questions are meaningful in themselves and in illuminating migrant biographical, family and housing trajectories. This original dataset allows us to explore migrant views of home against the background of their demographics and of their migration and housing conditions. We analyse respondents’ ways to articulate, spatialize and prioritize key aspects of home through a logit model, thereby assessing their association with age, length of stay, housing tenure, family networks and city of residence. Overall, their predominant construction of home points to a place in the country of settlement, but not necessarily to their own dwelling. Younger and newcomer immigrants see home as a primarily relational construct, whereas older and long-stayers emphasize its place-based and private dimension. Significant variations in the expected emplacement and bases of home can be found across cities of residence.
Keywords:
Age; Categorization; City of residence; migration; Home; Length of residence; Place

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