Parutis, V.;
(2006)
Construction of home by Polish and Lithuanian migrants in the UK.
(Economics Working Papers
64).
Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in Europe, SSEES, UCL: London, UK.
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Abstract
Researchers across the social sciences and humanities have sought to understand the nature of people's affiliation with a particular place, to understand the emotional and symbolic ties that bind people to a place and make them feel at home. The concept of home becomes especially complex when analysed in the light of migration. In this context Gilles Deleuza and Felix Guattari (1987) invent a pair of concepts: 'homing of diaspora' and 'diasporising of home'. These two phrases express the essence of diasporic existence: on one hand, 'home' and especially nostalgia for home left behind is infused into the very notion of diaspora; on the other hand, diasporas take their 'home' with them when they travel and reconstruct 'home' in the new environment. This article analyses how these processes of home creation take place among the new Polish and Lithuanian migrants in the UK, based on interviews conducted with migrant workers for the research project 'Changing Status, Changing Lives?' carried out by the University of Oxford.
Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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Title: | Construction of home by Polish and Lithuanian migrants in the UK |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | http://www.ssees.ucl.ac.uk/wp64sum.htm |
Language: | English |
UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > SSEES |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/17498 |
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