Lombard, M. orcid.org/0000-0003-1660-1794 (2021) The experience of precarity : low-paid economic migrants' housing in Manchester. Housing Studies, 38 (2). pp. 307-326. ISSN 0267-3037
Abstract
Concerns about increasingly precarious working and living conditions have highlighted the particularly vulnerable nature of low-income economic migrants, who often experience high levels of housing precarity, alongside precarious employment. Economic migrants to the UK often lack housing support, and access housing in the private rented sector (PRS), where they struggle to secure safe, decent and affordable accommodation. This article presents a qualitative exploration of low-income economic migrants’ lived experiences of housing precarity, based on research in Manchester. Housing represents a critical element of migrants’ experiences, which can have a determining effect on other outcomes. Yet despite the acknowledged higher levels of precarity in the PRS, there have been few in-depth studies of how tenants experience this, particularly at the lower end of the sector. The conceptual lens of precarity offers a deeper understanding of the affective dimension, multidimensionality and structure-agency dynamics of low-income migrants’ housing experiences. In this way, the paper contributes to debates on insecurity, perception, and agency in housing studies.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Migrants’ housing; precarity; private rented sector; Manchester; benefits |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2021 11:09 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jun 2024 14:50 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/02673037.2021.1882663 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:170349 |