Post-Accession Polish Migrants—Their Experiences of Living in ‘Low-Demand’ Social Housing Areas in Glasgow

Derek McGhee, Sue Heath and Paulina Trevena
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Derek McGhee: Department of Sociology and Social Policy and the ESRC Centre for Population Change†, Social Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, England
Sue Heath: Department of Sociology and the Morgan Centre, School of Social Sciences, Manchester University, Manchester M13 9PL, England
Paulina Trevena: ESRC Centre for Population Change, Social Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, England

Environment and Planning A, 2013, vol. 45, issue 2, 329-343

Abstract: Glasgow is a city well known for bringing together a ‘housing need’ with a ‘housing supply’. Post-accession Poles are the most recent population to fill the ‘void’ in Glasgow's ‘unpopular’ and therefore low-demand housing in areas of social deprivation. In this paper we will focus on the intersection of individual paths with institutional projects occurring at specific temporal and spatial locations: through examining the housing-seeking activities of migrants and the low-demand accommodation letting activities of, for example, the Glasgow Housing Association. In the paper we examine the meanings, processes, experiences, and perceived advantages (for migrant families and for housing associations) and also the disadvantages associated with post-accession Polish families taking up and being potentially ‘steered’ into tenancies in particular areas of Glasgow.

Keywords: Poland; European migrants; post-accession; social housing; Glasgow; housing associations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1068/a45158

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