NDLI: At home in inner-city immigrant community gardens

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Hondagneu Sotelo, Pierrette
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	This paper extends the definition of the domestic sphere to include urban community gardens, which I argue serve as critical “home-like” places that marginalized Latina/o immigrants use to sustain themselves and to re-create homeland in urban Los Angeles. Based on over 1 year of ethnographic and interview research at the gardens, I argue that the immigrant community gardeners are creating new homes, attachments and means of livelihood that link their past with the present, restoring them during this historical moment of the US immigration crisis in deportations and detentions. A range of social reproductive and restorative activities normally associated with the private domestic sphere unfold at these community gardens, allowing us to see these sites as shared open-air domiciles, hybrid-domestic places, set among plant nature. I suggest that focusing on the everyday practices, the materiality and meanings of place may productively shift our theoretical gaze from understanding migration experiences only through the lens of assimilation or transnationalism, and toward one that acknowledges active assertions organized around the right to home-making.
Starting Page	13
Ending Page	28
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15664910
Journal	Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
Volume Number	32
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15737772
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-11-04
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Immigrants Home Belonging Urban community gardens Hybrid-domestic place Social reproduction Human Geography Geography Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies

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