Migration and Housing

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue will explore the intersections between migration and housing. Migration and housing is an emerging and increasingly urgent contemporary policy concern globally. Much research has been published on this topic in the 21st century, with particular interest being paid to the intersections between race, identity and housing precarity. These issues have gained heightened urgency since the 2007–08 Global Financial Crisis and the intensification of housing financialisation, which have exacerbated various forms of precarity, including housing evictions, marginalisation, and the growing inaccessibility of homeownership and other tenures.

To understand why migration and housing have become such a contentious area, this Special Issue focuses on the following topics: power and the social structures that act to exclude, control and punish migrant groups (and how these forces can be resisted); intersectionality and the role of housing in social identity and power; control and precarity amongst migrant groups; citizenship and the struggle for housing rights; migration and housing market dynamics; young people, homeownership inaccessibility and intergenerational housing wealth; housing disadvantage amongst highly skilled migrants and international students; and policy and practice interventions to address housing precarity and homelessness amongst migrant groups.

This Special Issue invites theoretical and empirical contributions looking at causality, dynamics and the role housing that plays in the experience of migration. Papers are encouraged that utilise interdisciplinary work, both in theory and method, and we are particularly interested in papers that contribute to debates and geographies that have been relatively understudied. We invite papers that address the following questions (but are not limited to these):

• How do housing systems and markets reinforce (or reduce) social divisions and how do these processes impact upon different migrant groups?
• How do migrant and other marginalised groups (religious, racial and ethnic) experience discrimination and segregation in different housing markets and tenures?
• How is housing used as a means of controlling migration and migrant groups (for example, through monitoring, conditionality, penalty and behaviour change)?
• What is the relationship between identity and marginalisation amongst varying migrant groups?
• What role does citizenship play in housing inequality or in advancing housing rights?
• How does migration (internal or external) impact upon wider housing markets and what influence does migration have on housing and planning systems?
• How do (public and private) housing and social service providers respond to the needs of different migrant groups?
• How does political discourse on migration influence housing policy and practice?
• How can social policy respond to the housing needs of variegated migrant groups?
• How do the circumstances surrounding migration of individuals and households shape housing needs, preferences and experience?

Dr. Regina C. Serpa
Dr. Qiong He
Dr. Anna Pearce
Guest Editors

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• migration
• housing
• homelessness
• social exclusion
• race and ethnicity
• citizenship
• power
• intersectionality