1 Dalakoglou, Dimitris (2009) ‘Building and Ordering Transnationalism: The “Greek House” in Albania as a Material Process’. In Daniel Miller (ed.) Anthropology and the Individual: A Material Culture Perspective. Oxford: Berg, pp 51-68. CHAPTER FOUR Building and Ordering Transnationalism: The ǮGreek Houseǯ in Albania as a Material Process Dimitris Dalakoglou 1 Introduction This chapter addresses two major themes: migration from Albania to Greece and the ordering capacities of material culture in the transnational 2 practices of Albanian migrants. It examines a house built in Albania by an Albanian migrant who resides permanently in Greece. This house belongs to Fatos 3 who calls it Ǯa Greek houseǯ. 4 Despite the semantic and material contradictions embedded in it, Fatosǯs house in Albania and its construction brings the totality of his contradictory, fluid and sometimes paradoxical migratory everyday life into a unique and sensible system of reference. The ordering of this fluid everydayness through these houses explains in part why so many Albanian migrants build dwellings in Albania even though they do not reside in the country or have any intention to return there permanently.