Heimat and migration : reimagining the regional and the global in the twenty first century Discourses of Heimat and of migration both negotiate questions of identity belonging and integration; moreover despite the reemergence of right wing racist and exclusionary uses of the term Heimat there are in fact more recent German language cultural texts that problematize and challenge a view of Heimat as a community that excludes the Other than there are promulgating it. This volume addresses the parallel proliferation of discourses of Heimat and of migration in contemporary German language culture and demonstrates that the entanglement of migration and Heimat can be productive: it can help us to reframe what it means to have a home to lose one find one or belong to one