The Old House at Home
I additionally contemplate relationships between house and work in East London, exploring how work might contribute to a sense of house within the metropolis. I highlight the importance of objects, spiritual beliefs and practices in reconfiguring residence throughout transnational area. This thesis additionally addresses members’ future houses and potentialities of return to Vietnam. Individual selections of mobility and settlement are located within geopolitical dimensions of home and migration. I draw upon concepts of precarity and the geopolitics of house to argue that immigration statuses, transient work and housing are intertwined with private experiences of home and may present a major barrier to belonging in the metropolis.
This article to begin with questions whether or not the transformation from imaginary to real takes place and how did strange folks experience this alteration? An analysis of 38 semi-structured interviews conducted in L’viv presents a myriad of symbolic meanings of this phenomenon and … Read More