Aesthetic Immigrant Environments
Type:
Journal article
Year:
2020
Keywords:
Aesthetic values; Community heritage
How can aesthetics be understood from the perspective of the ethnic-minority migrant subject or the ethnic-minority migrant community? The mainstream paradigm of migrant settlement is one of deprivation, conditioned by hardships, financial struggles, and bare functionality. But migrant aesthetic production transcends this narrative of thrift and survival.
Johnston, C. 2020. Aesthetic Immigrant Environments. Fabrications (The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand), Special Edition Aesthetic Immigrant Environments 30 (2): 262-275.