The Old House at Home

I also think about relationships between home and work in East London, exploring how work might contribute to a way of home within the metropolis. I spotlight the importance of objects, religious beliefs and practices in reconfiguring residence across transnational area. This thesis also addresses participants’ future properties and prospects of return to Vietnam. Individual decisions of mobility and settlement are situated within geopolitical dimensions of residence and migration. I draw upon ideas of precarity and the geopolitics of house to argue that immigration statuses, transient work and housing are intertwined with personal experiences of house and might present a big barrier to belonging in the city.
The remainder of the time, totally different places are stored largely separated in our minds. The extra connections our brain makes to something, the more doubtless our on a regular basis thoughts are to steer us there. But connections made in a single … Read More
