My focus is on Scandinavia where home since the 20th century is used as a metaphor for the social democratic welfare state, a state which is associated with values like equality, solidarity and inclusion. With the rise of neoliberalism at the end of the 20th century the social democratic welfare state, and its metaphorical counterpart The People’s Home have been object for reconsideration. Simultaneously a growing number of filmmakers, writers and artists have deconstructed the alleged inclusiveness, solidarity and equality of The People’s Home. Showing that members of indigenous (Sami and Greenlandic), and migrant communities are not seen as belonging to the Scandinavian conceptualization of home. By investigating how the concept of home is imagined and constructed in contemporary literature and film, including those produced by members of indigenous and migrant communities, a greater understanding of the ever changing relation between state, civil society and private sphere can be created.