The bordering of British homeownership - race and property in the nation of homeowners

英国住房所有权的边界——房主国家的种族和财产

• 批准号: 2704922
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Birkbeck, University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2704922
• 关键词: bordering; British; homeownership; race; property

It has become somewhat of a truism that Britain is in the grips of a housing crisis, affecting the homeownership prospects of younger cohorts ('Generation Rent') in particular. But if we look at trends in tenure by ethnicity, it is apparent that homeownership decline has not been race neutral. My own comparison of the 1991 Census and the 2017-19 Annual Population Survey reveals that white homeownership has remained relatively stable in recent decades, while rates of Indian and Pakistani homeownership have fallen by around 15 percentage points. All rates of minority homeownership are now lower than the white rate, a significant shift from the position in the early 1990s when homeownership levels within the Indian, Pakistani and African Asian communities exceeded those of white households. Critically, this shift has occurred in the wake of the reorientation of British identity around the figure of the homeowner. Britain, along with the rest of the Anglosphere, tends to understand itself and be understood as a quintessential 'homeowner society' or 'nation of homeowners' (Arundel and Ronald, 2021). These concepts have their roots in the interwar period (Francis, 2012), but assumed a more influential or mainstream position within British political culture and self-identity in the latter half of the twentieth century, buttressed by rising rates of homeownership and the advent of neo-liberalism (Arundel and Ronald, 2021). There is a sense in which the concept of a homeowner society merely describes, or purports to describe, the British tenure distribution. However, on a more fundamental level, it represents or effects the possessive coding of British identity, the foregrounding of a possessive ethos in the construction of Britishness. What are the racial dynamics of British homeownership decline? And how does this relate to the possessive coding of British identity in the latter half of the twentieth century?

英国正陷入住房危机，这已成为不言而喻的事实，尤其影响了年轻一代（“租金一代”）的住房拥有前景。但如果我们看看按种族划分的保有权趋势，很明显，住房拥有率的下降并不是种族中立的。我自己对 1991 年人口普查和 2017-19 年度人口调查的比较显示，近几十年来白人住房拥有率保持相对稳定，而印度和巴基斯坦住房拥有率下降了约 15 个百分点。现在，所有少数族裔的住房拥有率都低于白人家庭的住房拥有率，这​​与 20 世纪 90 年代初的情况发生了重大转变，当时印度、巴基斯坦和非洲裔亚洲社区的住房拥有率超过了白人家庭。至关重要的是，这种转变是在英国人的身份围绕房主形象重新定位之后发生的。英国与英语圈的其他国家一样，倾向于将自己理解为典型的“房主社会”或“房主国家”（Arundel 和 Ronald，2021）。这些概念起源于两次世界大战期间（Francis，2012），但在二十世纪下半叶的英国政治文化和自我认同中占据了更具影响力或主流的地位，这得益于住房拥有率的上升和住房所有权的出现。新自由主义（阿伦德尔和罗纳德，2021）。从某种意义上说，房主社会的概念仅仅描述或旨在描述英国的保有权分配。然而，在更根本的层面上，它代表或影响了英国身份的所有格编码，即英国性建构中的所有格精神的前景。英国住房拥有率下降的种族动力是什么？这与二十世纪下半叶英国身份的所有格编码有何关系？