Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the coeditors of this important and exciting collection. Thank you to Kathy Davis, in particular, as well as to the other members of the organizing committee at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Their kind invitation to deliver a keynote address at an international conference on ‘Biographies of Belonging’ was the initial inspiration for this chapter. My critical thinking and the conceptual development of this chapter have been greatly enriched by face-to-face and virtual dialogue with colleagues/fellow conference participants as well as by my exchanges with those in attendance at the public lecture I delivered at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam. Finally, I extend my thanks to the two anonymous reviewers, who provided such insightful and instructive feedback.