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Housing Displacement

by Guy Baeten, Carina Listerborn, Maria Persdotter

This book presents an interdisciplinary take on housing displacement. It brings together researchers working in the fields of urban studies, housing, citizenship and migration studies to discuss exclusionary housing policies and governance practices at the urban scale. It demonstrates how housing displacement manifests itself in various ways that can, but do not have to, involve physical displacement. It explores the concepts of displacement pressure, un-homing, banishment and critically assesses our conceptual apparatus and methodologies at hand. It provides global perspectives, with case studies from the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, China, India, Sweden, Hungary. This book offers a timely and topical contribution on housing displacement in the aftermath of the foreclosure crises in the US, Spain, and other countries.