Hill House Home
A burgeoning cross-disciplinary literature signifies a transfer in direction of diversifying understandings of the meanings of ‘residence’. While earlier work has thought-about meanings of homelessness, makes an attempt to advance understandings of the relationship between home and homelessness have been sporadic.
It also highlights the translocal connections between residence, work and urban dwelling in Vietnam and East London. Drawing upon members’ private stories, I look at their journeys of migration and experiences of arrival in East London, framing the empirical material inside ideas of navigation and urban learning. Alongside a recognition of the function of town inside migrant experiences of home, I argue that participants re-form the town via their everyday mobilities and practices of dwelling. The thesis examines connections between residence and work in Vietnam, drawing upon understandings of the Vietnamese house as a website of connection to different locations and between dwelling relations, ancestors and the spirit world.… Read More