At home in generic places: personalizing strategies of the mobile rich

Ley-Cervantes, Melissa; Duyvendak, Jan Willem

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“…Communities and networks thus form a complex topology of identification, desire and friction (Hannerz 1980). The fourfold framework developed by Ley-Cervantes and Duyvendak (2015), which cross-articulates the private/public divide with the particular/generic places distinction, also aims to highlight such slant-wise social forces which put commonality under strain, given that generic spatial formations can be seen as the outcome of smooth capitalist economy (for a philosophical layout, Deleuze and Guattari 1980; for an urban-architectural reading, Koolhaas and Mau 1995).…”

Section: Home and The Thresholds Of Domesticitymentioning

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“…From this perspective, the very social density of communitarian living is Janus-faced, as it also entails a constant social control on subordinate members, which ends up reinforcing segregation and hierarchy. Ley-Cervantes and Duyvendak (2015) contribute with an article on Spain. Here, we observe that the need to negotiate domesticity in migration is not only a prerogative of unskilled labour migrants.…”

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Immigrants and home in the making: thresholds of domesticity, commonality and publicness

Boccagni

Brighenti

2015

J Hous and the Built Environ

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The search for home as a material and symbolic space is an increasingly salient social question across contemporary multiethnic cities. The boundaries between what is public, communal and domestic are increasingly contested and yet remain a crucial issue, especially for minority groups such as immigrant and ethnic communities. The domestication of everyday living spaces carried out by immigrant and ethnic groups entails a variety of ways of 'cultivating home'. In a context characterized by transnational mobility, ethnic segregation and social marginality, domesticity-understood as the potential to enact a domestic dimension in meaningful places-is an important asset to resist present hardships, cultivate memory and lay out projects for the future. In this Editorial, we seek to untangle the multiple stakes entailed by the practices of 'making home' and 'feeling at home'. We invite scholars to observe how, even in minute and mundane details, dwelling places and the built environment come to be imbued with social and cultural meanings, which are pivotal to survival and social recognition. The articulation of domesticity, commonality and publicness can be fruitfully mapped through the concept of 'thresholds', which brings together the case studies that follow. By doing so, this Special Issue as a whole lays out a new research agenda at the intersection of housing, urban and migration studies.

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Section: Home and The Thresholds Of Domesticitymentioning

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Immigrants and home in the making: thresholds of domesticity, commonality and publicness

Boccagni

Brighenti

2015

J Hous and the Built Environ

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“…Specifically, migrant experiences of constructing and feeling at home provide a strong focal point for this paper, since their memories and identities can be important in the home‐building process. In my tripartite analysis of these themes, I have sought to extend existing home‐building literature (Boccagni, ; Gregson, ; Hage, ; Ley‐Cervantes & Duyvendak, ) to argue that the links between memory and identity allow for better understandings around how home‐building ensues. In what follows, I discuss the home, as central to this review by refracting ideas of the home through memory and identity.…”

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“…Migrant communities, as well as refugees and asylum seekers, can draw on their memories of past homes, nostalgia of the homeland, and dreams of future homes to rebuild homes in host countries and override negative experiences they may have encountered (Blunt, ; Cieraad, ). For migrants, home can be constructed in host communities/countries by (re)creating past links through their memories, traditions, and also travel back to home countries (Ley‐Cervantes & Duyvendak, ).…”

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“…The home is subjective and multiscalar-a myriad of experiences occur there. Senses of "home" (and place) can range from micro-level understandings within a household to the macro-level considerations of cities, institutions, nations, and previous home(lands) (Boccagni, 2017;Ley-Cervantes & Duyvendak, 2017). Home can simultaneously be experienced differently as a place of risk, loss, or terror (Gorman-Murray & Dowling, 2007).…”

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Creating home: Intersections of memory and identity

Ratnam

2018

Geography Compass

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The concepts of memory, identity, and place form key debates in geographical literature because they link people to place. Memory incorporates narratives of the past that are articulated in the present day and can inform the way identities are constructed. The intersections of memory and identity can prompt us to think about how we experience and/or have experienced place(s). In this review, I trace discussions that position memory and identity as meta‐concepts that coalesce with the home and home‐building practices. I situate this discussion in and around the home because the home is commonly our most frequented place. It is a place where our person‐place bonds develop through everyday encounters and practices. I explore how memory, identity, and place have been broached in the home by using more‐than‐representational approaches. I have turned to more‐than‐representational theory to flesh out how enactments and encounters with objects and other materialities in the home demonstrate agency and connections to the home, which are indicative of memory and identity in action. Sensory and material encounters provoke remembrances and identifications with home(lands) through objects, people, food, and places that hold particular resonance among migrants.

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Generic Places, the Construction of Home and the Lived Experience of Cosmopolitanization

Duyvendak

Ley-Cervantes

2021

IMISCOE Research Series

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The chapter explores the way in which people under conditions of movement and change deal with plurality in contemporary urban settings by tracing the home-making experiences of a group of Mexican professionals in Madrid (postgraduate students, academics, IT professionals, journalists, and others). While their idea of home aligns discursively within an ideal version of cosmopolitanism (“at home everywhere”), in practice their strategies to feel at home in Madrid show that these privileged movers tend to rely on specific though generic places characterized by their homogenizing tendencies, such as hotel chains, generic coffee places and airports, to achieve a feeling of home.

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At home in generic places: personalizing strategies of the mobile rich

Cited by 13 publications

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Immigrants and home in the making: thresholds of domesticity, commonality and publicness

Immigrants and home in the making: thresholds of domesticity, commonality and publicness

Creating home: Intersections of memory and identity

Generic Places, the Construction of Home and the Lived Experience of Cosmopolitanization

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