ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the nature of the emotional response, and consider what it reveals about the state of contemporary multiculture. In research on the multicultural city, with the growing influence of psychoanalytic geography and the cultural turn generally, there has been an extensive body of work mapping emotions in different contexts. This research explores the ways in which three generations of Asian communities express belonging and attachment to the London suburbs where they live. This chapter addresses the lacunae by looking at the ambivalences, often unspoken, expressed by the children of South Asian migrants in Redbridge, towards the material practices of people in their own community in the domestic landscape. It focuses on the older second generation: a group of 30-something British-born South Asians who grew up in the London Borough of Redbridge. Redbridge was selected as it has a large South Asian community and is illustrative of what has been described as the ethnicisation of British suburbs.
