The paper concentrates on the meaning of »rootedness« or locality in southern Albanian village Dhërmi/Drimades and question its relatedness to land and property. It focuses on the locals, returnees and emigrants who continue to regularly return to their natal village. It argues that when expressing their feelings of locality and belonging, the locals and returnees continuously reconstruct their past in order to reassure their present, reconstitute and corroborate their ties to the land, create order to control their own labour, products and income and negotiate their sense of mastery.
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