Journal article
"Home tonight? What? Where?" An exploratory study of the meanings of house, home and family among the former Vietnamese refugees in a Canadian city
Abstract
This article explores the meaning of place and home among Vietnamese refugees now settled in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: a situation shared by the first author. We begin with a review of the meaning of place and home and their possible implications for this group. Initially designed as a case study, the research process was influenced by the conventional paradigm assumptions of an emerging design and was later transformed into an autoethnography …
Authors
Dam H; Eyles J
Journal
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, Vol. 13, No. 2,
Publication Date
May 1, 2012
ISSN
1438-5627