Iris Levin - Migration, Settlement, and the Concepts of House and Home

How do migrants feel at home in their houses? Literature on the migrant house and its role in the migrant experience of home-building is inadequate. This book offers a theoretical framework based on the notion of homebuilding and the concepts of home and house embedded within it. It presents innovative research on four groups of migrants who have settled in two metropolitan cities in two periods: migrants from Italy (migrated in the 1950s and 1960s) and from mainland China (migrated in the 1990s and 2000s) in Melbourne, Australia, and migrants from Morocco (migrated in the 1950s and 1960s) and from the former Soviet Union (migrated in the 1990s and 2000s) in Tel Aviv, Israel. The analysis draws on qualitative data gathered from forty-six in-depth interviews with migrants in their home-environments, including extensive visual data. Levin argues that the physical form of the house is meaningful in a range of diverse ways during the process of home-building, and that each migrant group constructs a distinct form of home-building in their homes/houses, according to their specific circumstances of migration, namely the origin country, country of destination, and period of migration, as well as the historical, economic, and social contexts around migration.

Iris Levin is a post-doctoral researcher who has recently completed a large research project at Flinders University and is about to commence a new project at Tel Aviv University.

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14 Migration, Settlement, and the Concepts of House and Home
Iris Levin

Iris Levin

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Levin, Iris, author.
Title: Migration, settlement, and the concepts of house and home / by Iris Levin.
Description: New York, NY: Routledge, 2016 | Series: Routledge advances in geography ; 14 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015025801
Subjects: LCSH: ImmigrantsHousingSocial aspectsAustraliaMelbourne (Vic.) | ImmigrantsHousingSocial aspectsIsraelTel Aviv. | HomeSocial aspectsAustraliaMelbourne (Vic.) | HomeSocial aspectsIsraelTel Aviv. | ImmigrantsCultural assimilationIsraelTel Aviv. | ImmigrantsCultural assimilationAustraliaMelbourne (Vic.)
Classification: LLC JV9195.M45 L49 L49 2016 | DDC
307.3/360869120956948dc23
LC record available at http://Iccn.loc.gov/2015025801

ISBN: 978-0-415-72068-7 (hbk)
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