Who can explain the concept of migrant aesthetics and who is the proposer?

Proposed by:

Michael McMillan

Interpretation:

From Michael McMillan's novel "The Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics in the Home"

This book mainly explores the life experience of British immigrants after the war, the changes in the decoration of the living room and the subsequent changes in social status.

（an exploration of the post-war British experience of immigrants, the decoration of their living spaces and their position in society in relation to decolonisation.）

migrant aesthetics

Migration Aesthetics

It takes the changes in the living rooms of British immigrants during the post-war period as the research object, studying the different perceptions of beauty and how these immigrants create beauty during the migration process.

The Front Room is a unique study by author Michael McMillan of the position of the home in different migrant groups. McMillan draws upon memories of his relatives' homes in the 1960s and 1970s to show a representation of his vision of the traditional 'West Indian' front room and the symbolism of particular objects. McMillan examines how these rooms raise the issues of class, migration, aspiration, religion, alienation, family and the transition from the colonial to the post-colonial. The front room provides an outlet to respond to the feelings of displacement, exile and alienation and the rebuilding of a home in a strange land.

The Front Room discusses the groundings of the front room in Victoriana and colonialism, with memories from first-generation West Indians and second-generation Black British. Primarily concerned with the West Indian front room the book expands to Moroccan, Surinamese, Antillean and Indonesian migrant groups and the decoration of their interiors and their position throughout decolonisation.