How Much House Can I Afford?

This thesis evaluates the colonial productions and contestations of Puerto Rican public housing and its residents as urban ‘others’. The analysis offered emphasizes the symbolic wrestle and material reality embedded in Las Gladiolas’s community politics which resists and disrupts a homogeneous imaginative and prescient of past, present and future urban space.
A joyful house conjures up nice memories
I also think about relationships between house and work in East London, exploring how work could contribute to a way of residence within the metropolis. I highlight the importance of objects, non secular beliefs and practices in reconfiguring house throughout transnational area. This thesis additionally addresses members’ future properties and prospects of return to Vietnam. Individual choices of mobility and settlement are located within geopolitical dimensions of home and migration. I draw upon concepts of precarity and the geopolitics of home to argue that immigration statuses, transient work and housing are intertwined … Read More
