Housing wealth and accumulation : home ownership experiences of African Caribbean families migrating to Birmingham and London in the period 1950-1970

摘要: The housing wealth experiences of ethnic minority home owners is relatively unexplored within the UK literature. This thesis makes a contribution to this field by exploring African Caribbean post war families. There are number original points departure literature that study makes. Links made with migration and social anthropology literatures in developing fresh perspectives on among group. avoids treating isolation from other networks communities. Instead it develops single asset network positions broader resource framework used interpret ownership careers return planning. incorporates drawn cultural consumption theory values meanings attached inheritances Caribbean. An methodological use life history methods transmission across two generations same family. 13 families included Birmingham London. findings suggest there complex interaction throughout careers. Informal financial form intergenerational exchanges supporting younger family members at start evidence inheritance ‘family land’ provided focus for investment facilitate migration. Other forms leakage took place, investments second homes Caribbean, kinship entrepreneurial activity. assets region suggests creation ‘transnational markets’.