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Australian housing policy, misrecognition and indigenous population mobility
Citation
Habibis, D, Australian housing policy, misrecognition and indigenous population mobility, Housing Studies, 28, (5) pp. 764-781. ISSN 1466-1810 (2013) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1080/02673037.2013.759545
Abstract
Policy initiatives in remote Indigenous Australia aim to improve Indigenous health and well-being, and reduce homelessness. But they have raised controversy because they impinge on Indigenous aspirations to remain on homeland communities, require mainstreaming of Indigenous housing and transfer Indigenous land to the state. This paper uses recognition theory to argue that if policies of normalization are imposed on remote living Indigenous people in ways that take insufficient account of their cultural realities they may be experienced as a form of misrecognition and have detrimental policy effects. The paper examines the responses of remote living Indigenous people to the National Partnerships at the time of their introduction in 2009–2010. Drawing on interview and administrative data from a national study on Indigenous population mobility, the paper argues although the policies have been welcomed, they have also been a source of anxiety and anger. These feelings are associated with a sense of violated justice arising from experiences of misrecognition. The paper argues this can lead tenants to depart their homes as a culturally sanctioned form of resistance to state control. This population mobility is associated with homelessness because it takes place in the context of housing exclusion. Policy implications include developing new models of intercultural professional practice and employing a capacity-building approach to local Indigenous organisations.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | housing policy, homelessness, residential mobility, indigenous housing policy, recognition theory, resistance |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Sociology |
Research Field: | Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism |
Objective Division: | Indigenous |
Objective Group: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community services |
Objective Field: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community services not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Habibis, D (Associate Professor Daphne Habibis) |
ID Code: | 83961 |
Year Published: | 2013 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 21 |
Deposited By: | School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2013-04-03 |
Last Modified: | 2018-01-25 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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