“…Recent migrations demonstrate that there is no straight line by which migrants are or are not integrated into the communities they join (Azuma, 2005;Brighton, 2009;Rabikowska and Burell, 2009;Stearns, 2006). Instead, there are series of complex negotiations as migrants maintain elements of their former lives and adopt practices and material objects from their new host communities (Greenwood and Slawson, 2008;Kivisto, 2004;Rotman, 2012). Furthermore, as Rotman (2010Rotman ( , 2012 and Ross (2012) found, objects can have very different meaning depending on their context-an object or practice within a household carries different weight and significance than actions and objects used outside.…”