Divided into three main themes, the chapters in this book all consider the connections
between the everyday spaces and places of the home-(land), street/ neighbourhood
and city, each of which offer possibilities of engagement with mobility. Drawn
to the idea of migrants negotiating what Appadurai (1996b: 47) terms, ‘disjunct
registers of affiliation’, in this final section we outline these modes of affiliation
that come together to produce multi-sited and multi-scalar translocal geographies.
At the same time our objective is to show how these ‘registers’ are experienced in
diverse forms through material as well as corporeal and subjective geographies of
movement. If migration is experienced and negotiated through a variety of scales
beyond the nation, then the different chapters in this book articulate precisely these
dynamics between divergent scales of experiences.