Migrant housing : architecture, dwelling, migration /
Migrant Housing, the latest book by author Mirjana Lozanovska, examines the house as the architectural construct in the processes of migration. Housing is pivotal to any migration story, with studies showing that migrant participation in the adaptation or building of houses provides symbolic materia...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | Routledge research in architecture.
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Table of Contents:
- Histories and theories of post-war migrant housing. Spatial enclaves and envelopes of identity
- Abjection, otherness, performativity
- Building the nation and the migrant enclave
- House/home. Diaspora aesthetics and the tell-tale details of architectural cultures
- The migrant house
- Dwelling after emigration
- Mapping migrant spaces of home. Maps, myths and origins
- The village as commemorative homeland
- Twin house.