An initial glance at the residential architecture of Northcote, a suburb of Melbourne, detects little difference between the brick-veneer houses built or adapted by the community's Mediterranean-origin migrant population and those brick homes built by the surrounding area's Anglo-Australian population. However, in Migrant Housing, Mirjana Lozanovska walks us through streets in Northcote where the brick-veneer houses have been built or adapted by migrants to fit their template of what houses should be. Once our eyes are drawn, for example, to the shape and orientation of the terraces attached to the fronts of these houses and we learn that these precisely represent and facilitate a social orientation that faces outward toward the street, we begin to gain an appreciation of the differences at work in these homes and the insights offered in Lozanovska's book. We see that this “turning around” of the conventional Anglo-Australian house allows people to continue to...

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