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Temporary home: a case study of a rural–urban migrant family’s homemaking practices in Guangzhou, China

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  • Pei Tang
  • Shaoxu Wang
  • Wei Tao

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Existing studies consider home as a dynamic process and thus explore the sociocultural factors across time and space in shaping migrants’ senses of home; yet, this has not been extensively studied in China’s context. Therefore, this study draws on insights from the fields of geographies of home to explore homemaking processes in China and to propose a multidimensional framework intending to guide future theorizing and localization research. First, we use an auto-ethnographic approach to unfold one family’s experiences of circular migration between Guangzhou and their hometown since 2000. Secondly, a life-course perspective was deployed to analyze their diverse embodied homemaking practices, through reflecting on stories at each stage of their homemaking: borrowing some floor space in an office building; renting apartments in urban villages; and setting up a buy-back center. Our conclusions reflect the influence of sociocultural and space–time factors in the processes of homemaking. This study contributes to enriching the study of home by exploring the impact of Chinese sociocultural traditions on homemaking practices and dynamics.

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  • Pei Tang & Shaoxu Wang & Wei Tao, 2021. "Temporary home: a case study of a rural–urban migrant family’s homemaking practices in Guangzhou, China," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(6), pages 843-858, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:16:y:2021:i:6:p:843-858
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1922202
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