Wood, Naomi Louise orcid.org/0000-0001-5507-7257 and Martin, Daryl orcid.org/0000-0002-5685-4553 (2019) “I’m a foreigner there”:landscape, wellbeing and the geographies of home. Health & place. 102274. ISSN 1873-2054
Abstract
The experience of migration brings particular challenges for wellbeing, especially as an individual’s sense of disconnection from previous homes can persist over many years. This paper reports on how visitors to a Chinese community centre in NW England reflected upon their experiences of being uprooted from their homelands, even in cases where they had lived for more than half of their lives in the UK. Memories of their previous homelands were persistently called upon in understanding their sense of belonging and cultural identities in the present. We use their accounts in dialogue with recent theories of landscape, especially those that argue for an understanding of place as embodied, ambivalent and in a continual process of making and re-making, in order to trace memories of home in contemporary cultures of wellbeing.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | migration,home,landscape,dislocation,wellbeing |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Sociology (York) The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Health Sciences (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2019 08:30 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jan 2025 00:21 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102274 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102274 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:154840 |
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