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ID123191
Title ProperYour ghetto, my comfort zone
Other Title Informationa life-story analysis of inter-generational housing outcomes and residential geographies in urban south-east England
LanguageENG
AuthorJensen, Ole
Publication2013.
Summary / Abstract (Note)Based on fieldwork carried out in an urban neighbourhood in south-east England, and using a life-story methodology with a focus on intergenerational change over time, I will analyse the housing outcomes of three ethnic categories - the White British majority population, the British-Italian minority and the British-Pakistani minority. Both minority populations are characterised by early moves into owner-occupancy. But where British-Italians typically have moved 'up and out', there has been a British-Pakistani residential consolidation in a 'comfort zone' where overlaying spheres of community and neighbourhood, underpinned by localised practices of cultural consumption, eventually have come to constitute a spatial and social habitus. Though policy discourse often perceives such practices as indicative of self-segregation, I will here argue that there are similarities between the British-Pakistani comfort zone and the memories of a neighbourhood-based white working-class community, articulated by White British residents.
`In' analytical NoteIdentities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol. 20, No.4; Aug 2013: p.438-454
Journal SourceIdentities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol. 20, No.4; Aug 2013: p.438-454
Key WordsHousing Outcomes ;  Diversity ;  Life Stories ;  Segregation ;  Neighbourhood ;  South - East England