Even though “home” seems to be a more or less fundamental social and material entity, homes and home cultures can involve different things for different people. Refugees and other migrants bring similar but also dissimilar thoughts, things and practical responses to conditions and environments to achieve a sense of home. This chapter provides a tripartite framework to understand how homes or better semi-homes are “translated” in asylum-reception centers and beyond. This framework differentiates between (1) translations of home arrangements, (2) translations of communal homing and (3) individual-oriented translations. This three-way framework allows for distinction between the efforts of working toward home and ontological security. The framework can help to identify both necessary inaccessible and available means and the conditions that permit or curb these efforts and, thus, the (im-)possibilities of home translations. What is more, I shed light on the cross-categorical potential of this approach for home research, also beyond asylum reception and (forced) migration.