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(Sandra, 71) Volunteers and refugees often described LocalHouse itself as being akin to a family, and their relationships with refugees as familial. LocalHouse hooks into and reproduces these discourses of care to call forth and stabilise certain subjectivities, relations and places: expressing a territory in which refugees might belong in the city; a territory in which they might not be "refugees" at all, but instead "community members", friends, or even family. When I asked LocalHouse's co-founder, Carol, about how the idea of LocalHouse initially arose, she explained that she and her husband, Alan, retired and moved to Wattle City in 2002, 'at about the same time as the first refugees came to [the city] under the [Australian Government's] Humanitarian Visa Program' - mainly arriving from sub-Saharan African nations. Keywords: Care; volunteering; resettlement; refrain; belonging; Deleuze; cuidado; voluntariado; reasentamiento; ritornelo; pertenencia; care; bénévolat; réinstallation; appartenance EN Care volunteering resettlement refrain belonging Deleuze ES cuidado voluntariado reasentamiento ritornelo pertenencia FR care bénévolat réinstallation appartenance 915 933 19 09/09/22 20220901 NES 220901 Introduction: the geographies of refugees' belonging Geographers have long argued there is nothing given about "belonging" (Massey, [40]). [Extracted from the article]

Keywords: Homelessness; body; ethnography; Athens; (spaces of) care; stigma dialectic; indigencia; cuerpo; etnografía; Atenas; (espacios de) cuidado; dialéctica del estigma; sans-abrisme; corps; ethnographie; Athènes; (espaces de) care; dialectique de la stigmatisation EN Homelessness body ethnography Athens (spaces of) care stigma dialectic ES indigencia cuerpo etnografía Atenas (espacios de) cuidado dialéctica del estigma FR sans-abrisme corps ethnographie Athènes (espaces de) care dialectique de la stigmatisation 953 971 19 09/09/22 20220901 NES 220901 Introduction Our meeting point was the cafeteria of the Greek National Theatre; cozy, affordable and never crowded, ideal for a "good" interview. They are the par excellence spaces of care inside spaces of care, where the so much desired comfort, care and cleanliness is practiced. Concluding, I reflect on this in-placeness/out-of-placeness paradoxical tension to suggest that the personal body work might facilitate the incorporation of a neoliberalizing ethic of care that shapes homeless care-recipients as active, responsible and, above all, resilient subjectivities in an increasingly insecure social environment and conditional care provision for vulnerable people. [Extracted from the article]

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