The Front Room Diaspora Migrant Aesthetics in the Home originally published in 2009 has become a beloved and muchpraised source providing fascinating revelations into the postwar British experience of immigrants the decoration of their living spaces and their position in society in relation to decolonisation. The front room emanating from the Victorian parlour provides an outlet to respond to the feelings of displacement exile and alienation and the rebuilding of a home in a strange land. Primarily concerned with Caribbean homes The Front Room also looks at Moroccan Surinamese Antillean and Indonesian migrant groups in Hollandencompassing through texts archival documents and artistic photographs the important cultural markers that are expressed through the domestic interiors of migrants. The author examines how this intimate space within the home raises issues of class race migration aspiration religion family gender identity and alienation. He also looks at the transition from the colonial postcolonial modernity by placing the book in the context of his own familys migrant experience.While this revised edition includes updates of the original essays from leading social commentators Stuart Hall Denise Noble Carol Tulloch and Dave Lewis as well as poems by Khadijah Ibrahiim and Dorothea Smartt and paintings by Sonia Boyce Kimathi Donkor and Njideka Akunyili Crosby. It also examines the iteration of the front room in post apartheid South Africa and discusses how sound system culture emerged from the front room as well as adding to the rich oral histories from different generations reflecting on their personal experiences of the front room and discussing the artefacts and objects found in them in terms of their cultural significance. The Front Room documents how the Windrush generations settlement in Britain contributed to the making of multicultural society and raises questions about our lived experience and notions of the home as many more people globally look for a