435 - Section on Community and Urban Sociology Paper Session. Home and Belonging

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

This session includes papers examining how home is constituted, and how individuals and groups come to belong in places such as dwellings, neighborhoods, cities, and other communities under uncertain and sometimes rapidly changing societal conditions. These papers take a particular interest in persons for whom connections to dwellings and places are tenuous or threatened: transnational migrants, internationally mobile workers, and those at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure. Each presents compelling qualitative data on the specific practices associated with home-making and belonging, collected in a broad range of geographic contexts.

Sub Unit

• Section on Community and Urban Sociology / Home and Belonging

Session Organizers

• Krista E. Paulsen, University of North Florida

• Maggie Kusenbach, University of South Florida

Presider

• Krista E. Paulsen, University of North Florida

Individual Presentations

• Immigrant Homeland Re-creation and Belonging in Urban Community Gardens of Los Angeles - Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California

• Ambivalent Belonging, Differentiated Foreignness - Mytoan Nguyen-Akbar, University of Puget Sound

• At Home In A Changing City: Particular And Generic Places In Home Making-Strategies of Movers - Melissa Ley-Cervantes, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Jan Willem Duyvendak, Universiteit van Amsterdam

• Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Sociological Analysis of Strategic Default - Lindsay A. Owens, Stanford University