This section explains “where and how” I conducted the fieldwork for this ethnography. I provide insight into the general situations of my interlocutors—all of them asylum-reception dwellers—the different places and facilities in Germany, such as Hamburg, Friedland and beyond and some general information about reception conditions. Similarly, I will discuss the features of different types of facilities in two main research phases: improvised emergency shelters in northern Germany (March–June 2016), Friedland transit camp in Lower Saxony (November 2019–March 2020) and decentralized shelters or community shelters (both periods). The spatial, material and organizational features of these centers frame the dwelling conditions, opportunities and constraints of homing as well as of ethnographic research. This chapter seeks to contribute to methods-based debates on (forced) migration, asylum reception and home ethnography from a material-culture perspective. Moreover, I reflect on my role as an ethnographer and its effect on the research, which is the subject of the latter part of the chapter.