The values of home
In conclusion of the first half of my research project , it highlighted the importance of having a connection to culture and home for immigrants and that was strongly missing for Batswana in Perth. The lack of ability to apply the true values and meaning of their cultural background to their homes in Perth, a place where they can gather as a community in celebration, times of difficulties, place for rituals and traditional  practices in the true manner that it is meant to be. Capturing the elements of their culture and reflection of home where one’s identity and culture is most apparent

In a brief overview of Volume 1 a deeper understanding of the influence that culture has the domestic realm was reached, through the analysis of the culture of Botswana and  cultural expectations of members within a family unit and their gender, as well as how it influences relationships within the home and use of space. As a result, the expectations became the under pinning reason behind how and when space are occupied; the adjacency of spaces. The conclusion drawn from the research made it clear how culture strings through an individual and is reflected in not only who they are but their home. Volume two will extract the elements of home and the culture to recreate the home for Batswana located in Perth, WA creating a home away from home.

The project explores the re-­‐creation of the home applying research from volume one of the home and its settings. Its important to have a great sense identity especially for immigrants, being in an environment that you have known all your life that reflects every part of your culture and moving to an environment that comprises of diverse    cultures, lacking a reflection of your culture and identity can be frustrating and become the start of a sense of detachment from ones culture and identity. The project focus is to create a place for immigrants from Botswana to connect with their identity and re-­‐live their memories of home; as Robert states The home can be looked as a    culturally meaningful object, the home is used to demarcate space as an expression of feelings, ways of thinking, social processes, and shelter and to provide arenas for   culturally defined activity (Robert M. Rakoff, 1977).

The home has been constructed as a source of identity and as an essential foundation of social order
Culture can be broadly defined as the beliefs, values systems, norms, mores, myths,   symbols, language, behaviour and structural elements of a given group or society (Parsons, 1999;Onibere et al., 2001; 2002)