Afterword : rooted in motion : reimagining migration through human-plant intimacies

Abstract

This commentary engages with the theoretical implications of human–plant intimacies for migration and mobility studies. Departing from anthropocentric paradigms, it draws on the special issue's ethnographic accounts to foreground the relational, affective, and political dimensions of human–plant entanglements in contexts of displacement. Plants emerge here not as passive background elements but as co-constitutive agents in processes of emplacement, memory production, and resistance. Drawing on concepts from multispecies ethnography, feminist political ecology, and affect theory, the commentary reflects on how plant care, cultivation, and loss reconfigure dominant understandings of home, movement, and belonging. In centering more-than-human agencies, it argues for a reorientation of migration studies that accounts for the material and affective infrastructures of life forged across human and vegetal worlds.