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This project focuses on how migrant professionals working in IT industries develop a sense of home in the city of Oslo. Migrant professionals are people engaged in highly qualified professions who may receive certain preferential treatment from host countries. Working is their main motivation to migrate and their professional identities as IT specialists structure in various ways their dwelling practices in specific locations. Dwelling processes among migrant professionals in Oslo are not confined to the domestic places in which they live, but connect them to notions of homeland, as well as homemaking practices at different scales. This project seeks to contribute to at least three sociological research lines: uncovering social actors' potential and inclinations to attach a sense of home to extra-domestic infrastructures; interrogating the social dynamics that shape these dwelling processes over time and space; and providing a novel research perspective into long-debated questions on social diversity, boundary-making, belonging and the reproduction of professional identities.