Providing a succinct summary of the two chapters in Section I, this Commentary views emotions as the warp and weft of the complexity of experiences related to migration. It suggests that investigation of emotional layers of lived experience can further refine the understanding of translocal practices if due attention is paid to the material underpinnings of emotions. Pursuing materiality as such may enrich the understanding of emotional experience as it often has affective, visceral effects that cannot be captured by the discourses of family and belonging. Affective proximity requires bodily presence and can only be partially replaced by material objects; bodily experiences are crucial to the understanding of both the feeling of emplacement and the feeling of displacement. The feeling of being at home talked about in the chapters of Section I is not disturbed or disrupted by conflict, but by absence, by the lack of touch, by “being out of touch” in a literal sense.