“I’m a foreigner there”: landscape, wellbeing and the geographies of home

Naomi Louise Wood; Daryl Martin

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102274

“I’m a foreigner there”: landscape, wellbeing and the geographies of home

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Abstract

The experience of migration brings particular challenges for wellbeing, especially as an individual’s sense of disconnection from previous homes can persist over many years. This paper reports on how visitors to a Chinese community centre in NW England reflected upon their experiences of being uprooted from their homelands, even in cases where they had lived for more than half of their lives in the UK. Memories of their previous homelands were persistently called upon in understanding their sense of belonging and cultural identities in the present. We use their accounts in dialogue with recent theories of landscape, especially those that argue for an understanding of place as embodied, ambivalent and in a continual process of making and re-making, in order to trace memories of home in contemporary cultures of wellbeing.

Original language	English
Article number	102274
Number of pages	8
Journal	Health & place
Volume	62
Early online date	25 Dec 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102274
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 25 Dec 2019

Bibliographical note

Keywords

migration
home
landscape
dislocation
wellbeing

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