What do the concepts of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’ mean for children from different European countries?

This article summaries the following research article: Maine F, Brummernhenrich B, Chatzianastasi M et al. (2021) Children’s exploration of the concepts of home and belonging: Capturing views from five European countries. International Journal of Educational Research, 110. DOI: .org/10.1016/j.ijer.2021.101876.    Introduction A sense of belonging is an important part of children’s development of self-awareness and identity formation.  Belonging is linked to six theoretical perspectives -  Spatiality, Materiality, Multiplicity, Social Relations, Affect and Dislocation. Spatiality refers to an individual’s feeling of belonging in the place, the scale of which can vary, from the micro-level of the home to the feeling of belonging to a global community. The context of increased voluntary and forced migration has called into question the idea of belonging to just one place or group of people and led to the development of multiple belongings, e.g. belonging to more t