Chapter 7: Conclusions

The stories of Dominican immigrants in the Netherlands exposed several things about the nature of immigrant homemaking, immigrant settlement experiences and Dominican migration to Europe.

In my treatment of Dominican migration to the Netherlands, I explored immigrant homemaking by focusing on the meaning of cultural practices and its embeddedness in a context. Many insightful studies investigate immigrants’ homemaking, and I sought to add to these by exploring the nuances. In particular, I followed Boccagni (2017), who calls attention to home as a process wherein people attach a sense of home to their life circumstances, depending on their assets and the external structure of opportunities. The stories of Dominicans presented in this book brought out several points with respect to the feelings of home, location of home and homemaking.