Vulnerability and Housing Policies through the Lens of Anthropology. An Introduction

Pozzi, Giacomo; Cachado, Rita Ávila; Micaelo, Ana Luísa

doi:10.4000/aam.2067

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“…Our ethnographies suggest that if the search for home may be understood as a human disposition, we cannot ignore that the loss or lack of home, or else its inadequacy, are real experiences that many of our interlocutors have faced in the everyday, now being overwhelmed then restarting. Contrary to the "invisibilization of suff ering" (Herzog 2020), we witnessed histories of vulnerability inscribed in peoples' homes, oft en impinging on discriminatory housing systems, which put vulnerable subjects (whether or not also due to their migrant condition) at risk of exclusion or segregation (Low and Iveson 2016;Pozzi et al 2019).…”

Section: Migration: Journeying Toward Homementioning

confidence: 93%

Vulnerable homes on the move

Bonfanti

Chen

Massa

2022

Focaal

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In a world of rampant inequality, when millions seek out better futures elsewhere, this introduction situates critical experiences of dwelling within recent debates on home and migration. Seeing vulnerability as an active condition, this theme section records the attempts of individuals and groups on the move in fashioning a home despite adverse socio-cultural, economical, and political situations. Our argumentation considers: the imbrication of structural forces and existential power, the complexity of temporal registers across the life course, and the human capacity for home-making. As asylum-seekers, evicted refugees and deprived migrant families struggle to feel at home in precarious circumstances, our ethnographies reveal the violence inflicted by social systems but also the agency of subjects who strive to make the places they inhabit everyday worth living.

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Section: Migration: Journeying Toward Homementioning

confidence: 93%

Vulnerable homes on the move

Bonfanti

Chen

Massa

2022

Focaal

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“…Th e relocation of Param's family aft er his stroke sheds light on the intersection between migration and housing research, homemaking and metropolitan dynamics (Hadjyanni 2019; Pozzi et al 2019;Rogaly and Qureshi 2013). Social housing is the fi nal destination of multiple shift s that the family underwent since their reunion in Italy.…”

Section: Housing and Dwelling On The Fringes Of Europementioning

confidence: 99%

From breadwinner to bedridden

Bonfanti

2022

Focaal

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Within transnational labor, the working capital of migrants may recoil as aging and disability occur, crushing people’s everyday life and aspirations. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork with Indo-Pakistani minorities in Brescia, northern Italy, the author queries “a case for affliction,” seeing the experience of a breadwinner’s stroke disrupting his household. While for decades Punjabi diasporas have settled abroad remitting to the homeland, social attainment oft en remains precarious for first-time movers and their off spring. Aft er 20-year residence in a destination country, a migrant father’s collapse rebounds on his kindred, who regrettably turn to local welfare and public housing but also readjust personal desires toward sustainable family care. Intersectional analysis abets the participants’ narratives in challenging any set “sense of inequality,” embodied, and embedded in run-of-the-mill racialized capitalism.

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‘People need housing to live in’: precarity and the rental market during tourism gentrification

Mixa,

Loftsdóttir

2024

Housing Studies

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Vulnerability and Housing Policies through the Lens of Anthropology. An Introduction

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

Vulnerable homes on the move

Vulnerable homes on the move

From breadwinner to bedridden

‘People need housing to live in’: precarity and the rental market during tourism gentrification

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