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Article: Surviving in the post-repatriation era: home-making strategies of homeless people in post-socialist China
Title | Surviving in the post-repatriation era: home-making strategies of homeless people in post-socialist China |
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Authors | |
Keywords | adaptive strategies government control and assistance home-making strategies Homelessness individual-structure interaction post-socialist China |
Issue Date | 2022 |
Citation | Housing Studies, 2022, v. 37, n. 2, p. 292-314 How to Cite? |
Abstract | While Chinese people are technically guaranteed a place to live through the hukou system, homelessness is still an issue in China. Our paper aims to explore the home-making strategies of homeless people in the context of China’s homelessness policy transition from repatriation to assistance in the post-socialist era, using in-depth interviews with homeless people and others interacting with them in Shanghai’s high-prestige downtown area. Drawing on Giddens’ structuration theory, we find that homeless people work to create a sense of home through: 1) avoiding the government service centres where freedom, privacy and social contact are restricted; 2) adapting their routines to rigid place management in the daytime and benefitting from strict security at night; and 3) tactically utilising surrounding spaces and facilities to carry out daily activities and develop a sense of home and control. Government assistance through the service centres is inadequate and may even be diametrically opposed to home-making, highlighting room for improvement in government homelessness policies. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/315345 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.4 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.054 |
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dc.contributor.author | Hao, Jinwei | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhu, Jin | - |
dc.contributor.author | Thompson, Sian | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-05T10:18:33Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-05T10:18:33Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Housing Studies, 2022, v. 37, n. 2, p. 292-314 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0267-3037 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/315345 | - |
dc.description.abstract | While Chinese people are technically guaranteed a place to live through the hukou system, homelessness is still an issue in China. Our paper aims to explore the home-making strategies of homeless people in the context of China’s homelessness policy transition from repatriation to assistance in the post-socialist era, using in-depth interviews with homeless people and others interacting with them in Shanghai’s high-prestige downtown area. Drawing on Giddens’ structuration theory, we find that homeless people work to create a sense of home through: 1) avoiding the government service centres where freedom, privacy and social contact are restricted; 2) adapting their routines to rigid place management in the daytime and benefitting from strict security at night; and 3) tactically utilising surrounding spaces and facilities to carry out daily activities and develop a sense of home and control. Government assistance through the service centres is inadequate and may even be diametrically opposed to home-making, highlighting room for improvement in government homelessness policies. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Housing Studies | - |
dc.subject | adaptive strategies | - |
dc.subject | government control and assistance | - |
dc.subject | home-making strategies | - |
dc.subject | Homelessness | - |
dc.subject | individual-structure interaction | - |
dc.subject | post-socialist China | - |
dc.title | Surviving in the post-repatriation era: home-making strategies of homeless people in post-socialist China | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/02673037.2020.1867082 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85100244343 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 37 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 292 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 314 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1466-1810 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000613818800001 | - |