Migrant Housing - Architecture, Dwelling, Migration

Migrant Housing examines the house as the architectural construct in the processes of migration. Houses are pivotal to any migration story, with studies showing that migrant communities' participation in the adaptation, extension or building of houses provides symbolic materiality of belonging.

List of contents

Introduction. Part I: Histories and Theories of Post-War Migrant Housing 1. Spatial Enclaves and Envelopes of Identity 2. Abjection, Otherness, Performativity 3. Building the Nation and the Migrant Enclave Part II: House/Home 4. Diaspora Aesthetics and the Tell-Tale Details of Architectural Cultures 5. The Migrant House 6. Dwelling after Emigration Part III: Mapping Migrant Spaces of Home 7. Maps, Myths and Origins 8. The Village as Commemorative Homeland 9. Twin House Bibliography. Index

About the author

Mirjana Lozanovska is Associate Professor at Deakin University, Australia. Her research deploys multidisciplinary theories of space to examine mobility and exchange and its impact on architecture, diversity and culture, and the reinvention of the city. She has published widely on migration and architecture, and is editor of the anthology, Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration (2016).

Summary

Migrant Housing examines the house as the architectural construct in the processes of migration. Houses are pivotal to any migration story, with studies showing that migrant communities’ participation in the adaptation, extension or building of houses provides symbolic materiality of belonging.

Product details

• Authors: Mirjana Lozanovska, Mirjana (Senior Lecturer Lozanovska, Lozanovska Mirjana
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.05.2020
• EAN: 9780367524982
• ISBN: 978-0-367-52498-2
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Cultural Studies, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Residential, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-), Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of Architecture, Human Geography, Urban communities, Settlement, urban and rural geography, Theory of architecture, Population and migration geography