1st Edition

Migration, Work and Home-Making in the City Dwelling and Belonging among Vietnamese Communities in London

By Annabelle Wilkins Copyright 2019
192 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the relationships between home, work and migration among Vietnamese people in East London, demonstrating the diversity of home-making practices and forms of belonging in relation to the dwelling, workplace and wider city. Engaging with wider scholarship on transnationalism, urban mobilities and the geopolitical dimensions of home among migrants and diasporic communities, the... Read more

List of Figures



Acknowledgements



Introduction



1. Conceptualising Home, Work and Migration in Urban Contexts



2. Locating East London’s Vietnamese Communities



3. Routes, Journeys and Encounters: Experiences of Departure and Arrival



4. Home, Work and the City: Between Vietnam and East London



5. Material, Emotional and Spiritual Homes



6. Future Homes, Mobilities and (Im)possibilities of Belonging



7. Conclusion: Where is Home in the Super-diverse City?



Participant Biographies



Bibliography



Index

Biography

Annabelle Wilkins is Research Associate in the Division of Languages and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, within the project ‘Translation, interpreting and the British humanitarian response to asylum seeker and refugee arrivals since the 1940s’. She holds a PhD in Geography from Queen Mary University of London, and her research interests are in home, work, migration and the city. She has published in journals including Area and Gender and Place and Culture, and in the edited collection Spaces of Spirituality.



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