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For Tuan (2012), it is by progressively attributing meaning to a space that it becomes a place. The same space can compose different places since the place, here, derives from the individual experiences lived in them and that can generate in the subject both a feeling of topophilia and topophobia. In reference to Husserl's theory, Donohoe (2014 p. 44) describes the dichotomous correlation between homeland and alien world. The former, by defining a specific notion of normality, also establishes, at the same time, the abnormality of the later through the construction of the individual in relation to his place of origin, which consolidates in him the habits through which bodies occupy these spaces, and reiterating that, even if there is an attempt on the part of the individual, primary bodily habits are not completely liable to be erased by new habits.
That is, the place where the individual moves to will always be interpreted and lived in relation to his place of origin.To the migrant individual, these relationships are even more poignant. The immigrant, displaced from his origins, is confronted by another culture, ruled by different codes, customs, rituals and traditions, thus initiating in them a process of identity reconstruction, a reconfiguration of habits and socio-cultural behaviour patterns. So, it is not an exaggeration to say that the immigrant lives a life of duality, divided between the native past and the alien present, intertwined by memory and experience, which configure the difference between “being from”, “being in” and “belonging to” a place
video, 2021