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'Making and remaking' refers to the way in which people consume, communicate and experience, and the way these actions reflect on society as a whole. Small groups such as the ones discussed in this work can be microcosmic indications of groups and communities at large, and can provide a reasonably accurate representation of how societies interact at large. Because society is diverse and ever-changing, connections and disconnections are made within groups and with society at large, and differences (which (Blakely and Staples, 2014, p.25) describes as “contrasts between groupings of people, such as those based on gender, class, age...and race or ethnicity”) and inequalities, (which (Blakely and Staples, 2014, p.13) describes as “The unequal …show more content…

A migrant may have a different idea of home than somebody who has lived in the same place for their lifetime. This is demonstrated in the concept of translocalism, which is a word used to describe the connections a person may feel to numerous localities (Raghuran and Erel (2014, p.157). This could refer to the connections a migrant has to the area they have migrated to, and their connections with cultural practices and members of the public, friends and family, and simultaneously the connections they feel they have to the place they have migrated from. Translocalism can be seen in the conversations had by Umut Erell with migrant mothers. (The Open University, 2015a) In this conversation, the mothers converse about the ways in which they attempt to continue to keep the cultures and practices from home relevant and practiced in their lives in the country they have migrated to. This can include practices including cooking the same food they ate in their home countries and speaking the language of their home town with their children. When making new friends, partners and colleagues, new connections are made. The mothers are connecting with new cultures but continue to have strong connections to their previous cultures. Translocalism is an example of a difference between those who have two “homes” and those who may feel as if they only have one. This difference is one which is produced based on the community someone comes from and comes to, and the movements between the two places. Therefore, society is made and remade when people travel from one place to

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