Gypsies and Travellers in housing : the decline of nomadism / David M. Smith and Margaret Greenfields.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, David M.

Contributor:

Greenfields, Margaret.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nomads--Great Britain.

Nomads.

Romanies--Great Britain.

Romanies.

English Travellers (Nomadic people).

Irish Travellers (Nomadic people).

Great Britain--Social conditions.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first published research from the UK to address the neglected topic of the increasing settlement of gypsies and travellers in conventional housing. It highlights the complex and emergent tensions and dynamics inherent when policy and popular discourse combine to frame ethnic populations within a narrative of movement.

Contents:

Further researchAppendix A: Methodologies ; Literature review ; Secondary analysis of Gypsy Traveller Accommodation Assessment (GTAA) data ; Focus group data ; Questionnaires and individual interviews ; Appendix B: Glossary of words and terms ; Index.

Social mixing and intergroup classifications: locals and outsiders8. Recreating community ; Spatial management and residential segregation ; Rebuilding community: housing exchanges and Choice Based Letting ; Gender, networks and community ; Self isolation ; 9. Young people in housing: aspirations, social relations and identity ; Gender social reproduction and transformation ; Hybridisation and cultural identity ; Mixed families ; Neighbourhood attachment and inter-ethnic solidarities ; 10. Conclusion ; Social inclusion, diversity and cultural resilience ; Policy responses and recommendations.

Introduction ; The population data ; Purposive studies of housed Gypsies and Travellers ; 5. Routes into housing ; Site provision and 'enforced' housing ; Housing officers and housing allocation ; Family, responsibility and housing ; 6. Housing transitions ; Adapting to 'bricks and mortar' ; Perceptions of neighbourhood ; Gendered transitions ; Authenticity and identity ; Successful transitions ; 7. Gypsies, Travellers and gorjers: conflict and cooperation ; Settlement and discrimination ; Stereotypes and social closure ; Responses to racism: masculinity and solidarity.

Foreword ; 1. Introduction ; Cultural trauma and collective resilience ; 2. Space, surveillance and modernity ; Policy and settlement ; Outsiders in urban society ; Modernity, space and exclusion ; Ethnicity, social closure and legislation ; 3. Gypsies, nomads and urbanisation: a social history ; Settlement in the 19th and 20th centuries ; Irish nomads in Britain ; The 'Metropolitan Gypsyries' ; Between nomadism and settlement: the interwar 'van towns' ; 4. The research sites and population sample.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Feb 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781447310969

1447310969

9781847428745

1847428746

OCLC:

855505073