Chapter 13 At the Roots of Home, Away from It: Meanings, Places, and Values of Home through the Biographic Narratives of Immigrant Care Workers in Italy Paolo Boccagni Abstract Purpose – This chapter revisits an archive of life-story interviews of immigrant care workers in Italy in order to map the underly- ing placements, meanings, and emotional connotations of the word “home” (casa). The discursive ways of using this word are connect- ed to the respondents’ shifting life milieus and orientations toward receiving and sending societies. Methodology – The chapter builds on the content analysis of a sub- set of biographical interviews of immigrant women employed in live-in care work in Italy. Findings – Three categories emerge across respondents’ narratives. Their everyday life experience is based in Home_here-and-now (the present dwelling place) and thus depends on its often limited inclu- sive potential. However, their everyday life experience is also affect- ed by the home conditions in their country of origin (Home_there- and-now) and by their recollections, understandings, and revisits of the past home experience prior to migration (Home_there-and- then). These immigrant women are engaged in an ongoing balanc- ing act between different spatial and temporal dimensions of what they frame as home. Critical to their wellbeing is the ability to keep Contested Belonging: Spaces, Practices, Biographies, 313–332 Copyright © 2018 by Emerald Publishing Limited All rights of reproduction in any form reserved doi:10.1108/978-1-78743-206-220181013