A place called home

Easthope, Hazel

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“…In the above extract, Sarah not only indicated a desire to personalise a property, which is important for wellbeing (Neumark, 2013), she alluded to the idea of a home-place as a site of ontological security that provides constancy and continuity in the face of an unpredictable world (Hiscock et al, 2001;Easthope, 2004). Sarah, along with others, believed that these qualities of home are necessary for forming a family.…”

Section: 'Settling Down' and Tenure Insecuritymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…First, a home can provide ontological security which refers to feeling a sense of trust and confidence in one's self-identity and understandings of the world (Giddens, 1991). The home as a site of constancy and continuity provides a familiar base to which people can return from the unpredictable, stressful and potentially threatening world (Hiscock et al, 2001;Easthope, 2004). Second, homes can create feelings of autonomy since having control over one's home -including the activities that occur there and the people who enter -contributes positively to mental health and wellbeing (Parsell, 2012;Hiscock et al, 2001).…”

Section: Home In the Private Rented Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘Generation rent’ and the ability to ‘settle down’: economic and geographical variation in young people’s housing transitions

Hoolachan

McKee

Moore

et al. 2016

Journal of Youth Studies

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'Generation rent' and the ability to 'settle down': economic and geographical variation in young people's housing transitions. Journal of Youth Studies, 20(1), pp. 63-78.There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it.http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/147165/ AbstractThe term 'Generation Rent' denotes young people who are increasingly living in the private rented sector for longer periods of their lives because they are unable to access homeownership or social housing. Drawing on qualitative data from two studies with young people and keyactors, this paper considers the phenomenon of 'Generation Rent' from the perspective of youth transitions and the concept of 'home'. These frameworks posit that young people leaving the parental home traverse housing and labour markets until they reach a point of 'settling down'. However, our data indicate that many young people face difficulties in this 'settling' process as they have to contend with insecure housing, unstable employment and welfare cuts which often force them to be flexible and mobile. This leaves many feeling frustrated as they struggle to remain fixed in place in order to 'settle down' and benefit from the positive qualities of home. Taking a Scottish focus, this paper further highlights the geographical dimension to these challenges and argues that those living in expensive and/or rural areas may find it particularly difficult to settle down.

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Section: 'Settling Down' and Tenure Insecuritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Home In the Private Rented Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Generation rent’ and the ability to ‘settle down’: economic and geographical variation in young people’s housing transitions

Hoolachan

McKee

Moore

et al. 2016

Journal of Youth Studies

175

131

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“…This is evident in right-wing political nativist and xenophobic agendas and discourses, where the entire space of a nation-state is made to coincide with the 'home' of the 'native inhabitants' (Art 2011;Duyvendak 2011). Not incidentally, much research has been devoted to understand precisely what kind of space is home (Douglas 1991), especially in relation to other established collective spaces (Easthope 2004). Observed from a relational point of view (Kusenbach and Paulsen 2013), the demarcation of the domestic domain and its positioning vis-à-vis the public and the communal domains vary greatly according to two major axes.…”

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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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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“…Therefore, home's meaning is established around particular familiar people and includes the people one interacts with (Duyvendak 2011;Nowicka 2007). Home then becomes an inclusive and distinct place where people have strong social, psychological, and emotional attachments (Duyvendak 2011;Easthope 2004).The connection between people and place is not new. According to Mumford (1961), "people are as attached to places as they are attached to families and friends.…”

Section: Home As Castlementioning

confidence: 99%

Castle and Cage: Meanings of Home for Palestinian Children and Families

Akesson

2014

Glob Soc Welf

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Many children in Palestine live in an environment characterized by the constant threat of violence in their homes, schools, and neighborhood communities. It is within this context that an examination of the meaning of home is relevant. For home tends to represent a beloved and "safe" place for children in families in the context of political violence. Yet, as this paper illustrates, the meaning of home is much more complicated, and can be both positive and negative. Drawing from qualitative research with 18 families living in Palestine, home is first considered as a positive physical space, or a castle, for families affected by occupation and political violence. As a castle, home serves as (1) a site of family practices, (2) a center of identity, and (3) a place of protection. Secondly, this paper will conceptualize home as a cage for many of these same families, exploring (1) the unhealthy conditions that families live in, (2) the lack of privacy that characterizes many homes, and (3) the feeling that one is a prisoner within one's home. The paper ends by suggesting how practitioners and policymakers can better understand children and families multiple meanings of home in order to encourage the positive and mitigate the negative elements of home.

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A place called home

Cited by 449 publications

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‘Generation rent’ and the ability to ‘settle down’: economic and geographical variation in young people’s housing transitions

‘Generation rent’ and the ability to ‘settle down’: economic and geographical variation in young people’s housing transitions

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

Castle and Cage: Meanings of Home for Palestinian Children and Families

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