Dynamics of Community Formation

Part I. Home and Community Building

1. Introduction: Home, Community and Identity
Ho Hon Leung

2. The Homemaking Trajectories and Challenges of Chinese Immigrants in Canada
Ho Hon Leung

3. Latino Experience in the Barrios of the South Bronx, New York City: The Other Side of the American Dream
Yaser Robles

4. Cultural Memory in Mainland Immigrants’ Settlement of Taiwan: A Case Study of Zuoying Naval Veterans’ Villages
Danzhou Li

Part II. Preservation, Reconstruction, and Development

5. Homes in Transition: Youths’ Experiences in Singapore’s Rental Housing
Derek Goh, T. C. Chang

6. Lessons from Post-Disaster Home Reconstruction: Dujiangyan City, China
XiaoHua Zhong, HuaiYun Kou

7. The Narrative Construction of Fang-Nu (房奴): An Urban Identity in Post-Modern China
Shiao-Yun Chiang

8. Challenges of Heritage Development Projects in Macau and Penang: Preservation and Anti-Preservation
Peter Zabielskis

Part III. Collaboration, Belonging, and National Identity

9. Constructing Home and Family in Accra
Kathleen O’Mara

10. Home Formation and the Use of Violence in Zimbabwe
Robert Compton

11. Building Consensus? Russian Nationalism as Social Cohesion and Division
Nataliia Kasianenko, Robert Ostergard

Part IV. Epilogue

12. Transforming Catacombs and the City of Paris: The Spatial Relationship Between the Home for the Living and the Dead
Raymond Lau, Mariela Bellido, Alexandra Reichert, Ellen Y. C. Leung

Keywords: Social Sciences, Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Anthropology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Ethnography, Cultural Studies