Fixed in Mobility: Young Homeless People and the City

Jackson, Emma. 2012. Fixed in Mobility: Young Homeless People and the City. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 36(4), pp. 725-741. ISSN 0309-1317 [Article]

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This article argues that although the lives of young homeless people are characterized by high levels of mobility, when examined closely movement is also revealed as heavily restricted. While a network of agencies moves the young people around the city, the official borders of borough councils and the non-official territories of young people feed into an experience of London as a series of exclusionary bounded areas. Within the accounts of the young people, mobility is talked of as a resource but also in terms of loss and dislocation. The article argues for going beyond the opposition of mobility/fixity in order to examine how some people become fixed in mobility.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01124.x

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Sociology

Dates:

DateEvent
August 2012Published

Item ID:

16201

Date Deposited:

11 Jan 2016 22:50

Last Modified:

07 Jul 2017 09:38

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/16201

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