In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom.Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating conflicts of our time, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions.The Home I Worked to Make takes Syria’s refugee outflow as its point of departure.Based on hundreds of interviews conducted across more than a decade, it probes a question as intimate as it is universal: What is home?With gripping immediacy, Syrians now on five continents share stories of leaving, losing, searching, and finding (or not finding) home.Across this tapestry of voices, a new understanding emerges: home.For those without the privilege of taking it for granted, home is both struggle and achievement.Recasting “refugee crises” as acts of diaspora-making, The Home I Worked to Make challenges readers to grapple with the hard-won wisdom of those who survive war and to see, with fresh eyes, what home means in their own lives.