Post-accession Polish migrants - their experiences of living in 'low-demand' social housing areas in Glasgow

Citation

McGhee D, Heath S & Trevena P (2013) Post-accession Polish migrants - their experiences of living in 'low-demand' social housing areas in Glasgow. Environment and Planning A, 45 (2), pp. 329-343. https://doi.org/10.1068/a45158

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

Journal
Environment and Planning A: Volume 45, Issue 2

People

Professor Derek McGhee

Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences