Selçuk Gündüz is an Assistant Professor at Hatay Mustafa Kemal University. In 2022, he earned a TÜBİTAK scholarship and carried out research as a visiting researcher at Queen's University Belfast. He conducts research grounded in ethnography on migration, material culture, gender and the Alevi belief system.

“This is a thoughtful and sensitive discussion of displaced Syrians in Turkey, using the lens of material culture to tease out the human experience of migration. There are some very rich examples deployed across the text.” • Kathy Burrell, University of Liverpool

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Objects Carrying the Scent of HomelandChapter 2. The Role of Objects on the Feeling of Home in Migrant Lives: The Case of Display Cabinets and Plants in Syrian Migrant HomesChapter 3. Religious ObjectsChapter 4. Contiuning Bonds: Object Mediations Following Separation and DeathChapter 5. The Biographies of a Community Trust ‘Battalname’ and a Personal Belonging ‘Prayer Rug’: A Case Study of Ahmed's StoryChapter 6. PhotographsChapter 7. Digital Landscape and Sharing: ‘Do You Remember This?’ConclusionReferencesIndex