Migrants can feel such nostalgia for home that they try to replicate it in their adopted one, a habit that can have unintended consequences. Early Swedish settlers in North America, for example, replicated the farms and villages of home by building log cabins in the woods. Such dwellings are now considered archetypically American, usurping the portable tepees and grass wigwams in which Native Americans actually lived.11 For them home was never a building, but rather a carefully curated territory that, because of its lack of farms, fields and fences, went unrecognised by Europeans.
