ABSTRACT Migrants’ houses not only offer shelter and a setting for everyday life, but a platform from which to maintain a migrant identity. Migrants’ efforts to express their culture can be reflected in the appearance of their houses, where aesthetic differences spark “aesthetic anxieties” towards an ethnic-looking artefact from non-migrant neighbours. In this paper, we extend the category of “aesthetic anxieties” to include the migrants’ own experiences within their Australian houses, rather than the reactions of mainstream society. The settings provoking such anxieties are often not visible from the street but are experienced by migrants within the house in response to a lack of housing diversity to accommodate their cultural needs. This study aims to provide insights into the experience of Lebanese migrants in Australian houses, and to reflect their responses to the spatial organisation of their houses, considering changing factors such as household occupants’ age, marital status, and household dynamics over time. We use in-depth interview data from three Lebanese families to reflect on their behaviour within, and emotional and physical relationship to, their houses. We find the spatial organisation of mainstream Australian housing may clash with residents’ cultural values affecting whether they are able to comfortably occupy their houses, or not.

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移民住宅的审美焦虑：澳大利亚黎巴嫩人的案例

摘要 移民的房屋不仅为日常生活提供住所和环境，而且是维持移民身份的平台。移民表达他们的文化的努力可以反映在他们房屋的外观上，其中审美差异引发了非移民邻居对具有种族外观的人工制品的“审美焦虑”。在本文中，我们扩展了“审美焦虑”的范畴，将移民自己在澳大利亚家庭中的经历包括在内，而不是主流社会的反应。引发这种焦虑的环境通常在街上是看不到的，但由于缺乏住房多样性来满足他们的文化需求，移民在房屋内会经历这种情况。本研究旨在深入了解黎巴嫩移民在澳大利亚房屋中的经历，并考虑家庭居住者的年龄、婚姻状况和家庭动态等不断变化的因素，以反映他们对房屋空间组织的反应。我们使用来自三个黎巴嫩家庭的深度访谈数据来反思他们在房屋内的行为以及与房屋的情感和身体关系。我们发现澳大利亚主流住房的空间组织可能会与居民的文化价值观发生冲突，影响他们是否能够舒适地居住在自己的房子里。