‘Race’, Deprivation and the Research Agenda: Revisiting Housing, Ethnicity and Neighbourhoods

Markkanen, Sanna; Harrison, Malcolm

doi:10.1080/02673037.2013.759180

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“…Considerations of local conditions and their implications for peoples' daily lives are essential when trying to understand issues relating to housing (Markkanen & Harrison, 2013). In this paper, the local housing context is defined as the local housing stock (tenure, housing type and dwelling sizes), vacancy rates and allocation rules for different tenures, housing prices as well as location and neighbourhood status.…”

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The Interaction of Local Context and Cultural Background: Somalis' Perceived Possibilities in Nordic Capitals' Housing Markets

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Immigrants' housing position is often explained by (lack of) resources or differences in cultural backgrounds. Recent studies have included the importance of local context. The aim of this paper is to examine Somalis' perceptions of their possibilities in four Nordic capitals' housing markets: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm. The approach is an interview study based on immigrants' own explanations of what they strive for and how they assess the impact of local conditions and cultural background for their possibilities. We found that local context and cultural background intertwine and sometimes conflict with each other, but that the negotiation between cultural background and local context was individual. The conclusion is that local context and cultural background are important factors for understanding differences between Somalis on different housing markets, thus emphasising that local context and cultural background have to be studied together to understand perceived housing possibilities.

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“…For example, the uneven geographies of the settlement of minorities in Britain have been increasingly problematised (Walters 2004;McKay and Winkelmann 2005;Robinson and Reeve 2006;Phillips, Simpson, and Ahmed 2008;Reeve 2008;Pemberton 2009;Simpson and Finney 2009;Phillips and Harrison 2010;Perry 2012). Migrant and minority residential choice has been constrained by affordability and fears for safety and there is a need to support both existing and newer communities and to address racial harassment (Phillips 2006;Robinson and Reeve 2006;Phillips and Harrison 2010;Netto 2011b;Markkanen and Harrison 2013). This constraint on residential choice has implications for other life domains, including employment, particularly when it prevents moves from highly deprived areas with poor access to employment opportunities, as Clark et al (2019) find.…”

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“…We draw on existing research into ethnicity and housing disadvantage, but seek to further identify how migrants, particularly recent ones, may have distinct experiences beyond and interconnected with ethnicity (Markkanen and Harrison 2013). In the context of previous studies, using the 2011 Census enables us to get a picture of the major tenure differences in relation to country of origin and date of arrival; and we present a timeline of significant developments in housing and migration law and policy, supplemented by the numbers and types of migrants arriving at different times.…”

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Slippery discrimination: a review of the drivers of migrant and minority housing disadvantage

Lukes

Noronha

Finney

2018

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This paper aims to identify housing disadvantages faced by migrants and ethnic minorities; the legal, policy and market forces that shape them; how they have developed over time; how they are manifest nationally and locally; and how they are being responded to locally by those concerned with mitigating them. The paper thereby intends to provide a foundation to inform future research and policy and to engage with local actors to develop ways of overcoming migrant housing disadvantage and challenging discrimination. The paper finds that the interplay of legal changes, which have increasingly differentiated migrants since the 1940s, and shifting housing markets, has driven exclusion of migrants and minorities such that considerable disadvantage is revealed by analysis of census data. However, attention to local specificity provides evidence of positive responses. Examples are presented in relation to access to affordable housing, enactment of homelessness duties and community actions. Methodologically, this paper highlights the importance of simultaneous consideration of migration and ethnicity as markers of difference and exclusion, and the potential of co-production approaches for socially meaningful research concerned with inequalities.

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“…Despite the policy entanglements of race, housing and cohesion/integration, recent years have seen surprisingly few studies of this domain reflecting a relative neglect of race in housing studies (Bloch, Neal, and Solomos 2013;Markkanen and Harrison 2013). Bloch, Neal, and Solomos (2013, 89) have noted how 'housing policy is often a marginalised part of the race and housing debate despite being very much a part of the housing opportunities and closures offered to BME communities'.…”

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The roles of social housing providers in creating ‘integrated’ communities

Finney

Harries

Rhodes

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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Cohesion and integration agendas in Britain can be characterised by localisation of 'race relations' responsibilities and the importance of local institutions in shaping neighbourhoods has been acknowledged. However, little is understood about the roles of housing providers in integration initiatives. Indeed, research on housing and race has experienced a lull in the 2000s. Thus, this paper aims to examine how social housing providers negotiate their positions and are complicit in constructing a certain vision of community. It draws on interviews from the ESRC Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE)'s work in the ethnically diverse neighbourhoods of Cheetham Hill (Manchester), Newham (London), Butetown (Cardiff) and Pollokshields and Govanhill (Glasgow). The paper makes three arguments: first, that race and ethnicity as facets of 'integration' have been subsumed into broader agendas, yet remain implicit in community building; second, that housing organisation practices are often detached from local meanings of community and prioritise exclusionary activities focusing on behaviour change and, third, that the roles of housing organisations in constructing 'integrated' communities are highly variable and localised, influenced by the history and contemporary dynamics of place.

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‘Race’, Deprivation and the Research Agenda: Revisiting Housing, Ethnicity and Neighbourhoods

Cited by 10 publications

References 33 publications

The Interaction of Local Context and Cultural Background: Somalis' Perceived Possibilities in Nordic Capitals' Housing Markets

The Interaction of Local Context and Cultural Background: Somalis' Perceived Possibilities in Nordic Capitals' Housing Markets

Slippery discrimination: a review of the drivers of migrant and minority housing disadvantage

The roles of social housing providers in creating ‘integrated’ communities

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