Home is a contested realm where social and economic power is exercised in relation to the construction of one’s identity. For some, it refers to a sense of familiarity and security; for others, a place of exclusion and alienation. Human relationships, subjectivity, communication styles and cognition are all embedded in one’s cultural frame of reference, so in this sense, home can also be a benchmark where judgements are made. While home refers to cultural practices such as religious rituals, daily routines, interpersonal relationships, and attachment to physical objects, the notion of the home also involves an invisible aspect of affective dimension to a particular space or a ‘mythic place of desire’. It exists as a dynamic space where power and mobility anonymously interact. Whilst people can maintain their emotional attachments to their culture of origin, they can also develop a sense of home in other spaces. Home, therefore, is conceptualised as a “continuum in which traumatic and positive experiences of there, here and elsewhere interact over time and space”. The sense of home is often found and exhibited through multilayered emotions such as love, hate, guilt, grief and fear in an individual’s embodied lived experiences. Resistance may be embedded in the notion of one’s emotions where the boundary of one’s cultural knowledge is challenged, leading to a set of uneasy feelings such as fear, frustration, depression, tension, grief and even pain.