Home-making practices and social protection across borders: an example of Turkish migrants living in Germany
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- 作者：Başak Bilecen
- 关键词：Home ; making practices ; Social protection ; Migration ; Transnationalism ; Qualitative methods ; Turkey ; Germany
- 刊名：Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：March 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：32
- 期：1
- 页码：77-90
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- 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
- 刊物主题：Human Geography; Geography, general; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning;
- 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1573-7772
- 卷排序：32
文摘
This article explores how Turkish migrants in Germany turn their physical houses into homes through actual day-to-day practices. It does so by drawing on participant observation and qualitative interviews. Rather than referring to home merely as a physical place, this article investigates in detail migrants’ home-making practices, particularly those activities related to social protection. In making their homes, migrants simultaneously make reference to multiple locales, material artifacts, and social relationships in countries of emigration and immigration. Through the examination of home-making practices, this article is an attempt to portray the symbolic and material expressions with transnational elements of the home unfolding in migrants’ everyday life.