Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501713217
- eISBN:
- 9781501709685
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501713217.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines the potential neighborhood effects of trailer park residence on child and youth development. Using parents’ aspirations that their children have broader life chances than they ...
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This chapter examines the potential neighborhood effects of trailer park residence on child and youth development. Using parents’ aspirations that their children have broader life chances than they themselves had, this chapter documents the range of developmental trajectories among children and youth growing up in a rural trailer park. While a few flourish, most often, young people seem set on a course to reproduce their parents working poor class status. Increasingly in adolescence, as the social stigma of park residence emerges, there are developmental costs of park residence that compromises life chances. Less
This chapter examines the potential neighborhood effects of trailer park residence on child and youth development. Using parents’ aspirations that their children have broader life chances than they themselves had, this chapter documents the range of developmental trajectories among children and youth growing up in a rural trailer park. While a few flourish, most often, young people seem set on a course to reproduce their parents working poor class status. Increasingly in adolescence, as the social stigma of park residence emerges, there are developmental costs of park residence that compromises life chances.
Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501713217
- eISBN:
- 9781501709685
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501713217.003.0009
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
Trailer parks supply rural people of modest income a homeownership opportunity. All hope to move-on, but for most their conventional housing Dream remains out of reach. Three families, one from each ...
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Trailer parks supply rural people of modest income a homeownership opportunity. All hope to move-on, but for most their conventional housing Dream remains out of reach. Three families, one from each site, share crucial features that explain a pathway out of the trailer park during the study. Trailer parks have a neighborhood effect mainly for Whites, for whom park residence conveys a sense of stigma. The trailer trash stigma is pronounced where: white ethnicity is dominant; a rigid class hierarchy is in place; and segregation of a park population is enforced. Such conditions were absent among park Blacks and Hispanics.Less
Trailer parks supply rural people of modest income a homeownership opportunity. All hope to move-on, but for most their conventional housing Dream remains out of reach. Three families, one from each site, share crucial features that explain a pathway out of the trailer park during the study. Trailer parks have a neighborhood effect mainly for Whites, for whom park residence conveys a sense of stigma. The trailer trash stigma is pronounced where: white ethnicity is dominant; a rigid class hierarchy is in place; and segregation of a park population is enforced. Such conditions were absent among park Blacks and Hispanics.
