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来源

JOURNAL OF HOUSING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT,Vol.32,Issue1SI,P.63-76

语言

英文

关键字

Chronically mobile; Generic places; Home; Madrid; Mexicans; Personalization

作者单位

[Ley-Cervantes, Melissa] CONACyT, Colegio Frontera Norte, Calle Tecn 277 Esq Rio Panuco, Monterrey 64700, NL, Mexico. [Duyvendak, Jan Willem] Univ Amsterdam, POB 15508, NL-1001 NA Amsterdam, Netherlands. Ley-Cervantes, M (reprint author), CONACyT, Colegio Frontera Norte, Calle Tecn 277 Esq Rio Panuco, Monterrey 64700, NL, Mexico. E-Mail: melissa.ley@uam.es; Duyvendak@uva.nl

摘要

In the literature it is often suggested that mobile people, like their non-mobile counterparts, look for particular places to connect with. This has been documented in research focused on the way in which migrants (re)create particular places in their countries of destination (i.e., the formation of ethnic enclaves). However, our extensive fieldwork among Mexican professionals in Madrid, such as postgraduate students, academics, IT professionals, journalists, and others, point toward the opposite direction: for the very mobile and the recently arrived particular places matter little (Duyvendak in The politics of home. Belonging and nostalgia in Western Europe and the United States. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2011; Ley-Cervantes in Stuck in the middle: home-making strategies of Mexican Middling Migrants. Ph.D. Thesis, Autonomous University of Madrid, 2012). Instead they rely on generic places, such as airports, chain restaurants or hotels to feel at home. Instead of taking for granted the homeliness of certain places, this paper aims to inquire the role of generic places in the home-making experiences of a small and rather privileged portion of the moving population.