changing places: RCF 28.1.21
insider and outsider experience
insider: Someone who feels safe, secure and at home in a place; they understand the social
norms of the society and feel included. They can play an active social and economic role
within society.
Outsider: Someone who feels homesick, alienated or excluded from society in a specific
place; they may not be able to take an active role, for example, in work or study as a result
of socially constructed barriers.
A) At school within the first couple of months.
B) I didn’t know people very well and felt very different.
Insider Outside
Place of Birth Born in or their parents Not born in X, they are
were born here immigrants and or their
parents and grandparents
were.
Status (citizenship) Permanent resident. Holds a Temporary visitor. Holds
passport for X. Can work, foreign passport. Not able
vote, claim benefits. to work, vote or claim.
Language capability Fluent in local language Not fluent. Does not
understand local idioms
(variations/slang)
Social interactions: Understands unspoken rules Frequently makes faux paus
behaviour and of the society of X. or misunderstands social
understanding Conforms to local norms. interactions.
State of mind Safe, secure, happy – feels Homesick, alienated, in exile
at home or in place in – feels out of place.
country X.
Anti-homeless architecture should only be put in places where the homeless person is in
danger e.g.: rough areas, places where there is frequent violence etc… Instead of anti-
homeless architecture in rich areas and public space they should be providing resources
such as help line phone numbers and free book storage spaces. If a homeless person wants
to improve their situation, they will but only if you give them the resources to do so. Putting
up anti-homeless architecture can make a place seem unfriendly and class-dividing.
Ethnic minorities suffer due to race discrimination and the stenotypes and presumption of
their people and culture.
Homeless people suffer due to the presumption that they do not work hard and are the
delinquents of our communities.
Gypsies/Travelers suffer due to their culture of being untied from the ground, they are free
and society doesn’t like that since they are not able to control them in a frequent place.
Disabled people suffer due to their impediments that make life harder than it deserves to be
as well as the discrimination from others.
insider and outsider experience
insider: Someone who feels safe, secure and at home in a place; they understand the social
norms of the society and feel included. They can play an active social and economic role
within society.
Outsider: Someone who feels homesick, alienated or excluded from society in a specific
place; they may not be able to take an active role, for example, in work or study as a result
of socially constructed barriers.
A) At school within the first couple of months.
B) I didn’t know people very well and felt very different.
Insider Outside
Place of Birth Born in or their parents Not born in X, they are
were born here immigrants and or their
parents and grandparents
were.
Status (citizenship) Permanent resident. Holds a Temporary visitor. Holds
passport for X. Can work, foreign passport. Not able
vote, claim benefits. to work, vote or claim.
Language capability Fluent in local language Not fluent. Does not
understand local idioms
(variations/slang)
Social interactions: Understands unspoken rules Frequently makes faux paus
behaviour and of the society of X. or misunderstands social
understanding Conforms to local norms. interactions.
State of mind Safe, secure, happy – feels Homesick, alienated, in exile
at home or in place in – feels out of place.
country X.
Anti-homeless architecture should only be put in places where the homeless person is in
danger e.g.: rough areas, places where there is frequent violence etc… Instead of anti-
homeless architecture in rich areas and public space they should be providing resources
such as help line phone numbers and free book storage spaces. If a homeless person wants
to improve their situation, they will but only if you give them the resources to do so. Putting
up anti-homeless architecture can make a place seem unfriendly and class-dividing.
Ethnic minorities suffer due to race discrimination and the stenotypes and presumption of
their people and culture.
Homeless people suffer due to the presumption that they do not work hard and are the
delinquents of our communities.
Gypsies/Travelers suffer due to their culture of being untied from the ground, they are free
and society doesn’t like that since they are not able to control them in a frequent place.
Disabled people suffer due to their impediments that make life harder than it deserves to be
as well as the discrimination from others.
