Reclaiming Place: The Architecture of Home, Family and Migration
Keywords:
domestic space, place, materiality, migration, West IndiesAbstract
This article examines the significance of place, home
and belonging among Jamaican return migrants. Drawing upon
detailed case studies of return migrants who migrated to the
United Kingdom in the 1950s and 1960s and moved back to
Jamaica to retire over 25 years later, it explores how returnees
design and use their homes to attain the dream and realities of
return. Through an analysis of the structure arid design of homes
that returnees spend their lives imagining and building, I reveal
that, for returnees, home is not just a place, but also becomes
a site for imagining several key relationships in returnees, lives
that are ultimately fundamental to the act of reclaiming place.
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