Peter Lugosi

Work and employment are frequently presented as potential solutions for socially excluded people to overcome their disadvantage(s) and to (re)integrate into society. To assess the viability of pursuing employment pathways, it is important to understand previous engagement with, perceptions of, and attitudes towards work and employment among those who have encountered multiple forms of social exclusion. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 63 people who had experienced homelessness in Australia, this article examines what work means to people excluded from housing and work realms. The article proposes spatial alienation to conceptualise affective (constructive-antagonistic) and temporal (past-future) orientations to work, arguing that work can represent ordered , tainted , aspirational , and hostile space. The findings identify various factors that shape these orientations, demonstrate their consequences, and illustrate the agency that socially disadvantaged individuals exercise through and in relation to their engagement with work and employment.

This editorial introduces the concept of hospitable destinations and sets the context for the Special Issue articles. It begins by exploring the complex nature of destinations more generally and highlighting their links with place. The discussion then moves to critically examining intersections of hospitality and destinations, considering various drivers for mobilizing hospitableness in strategic placemaking and the impacts of emergent hospitality-related practices on disparate destination stakeholders. The next section introduces the articles in the Special Issue, which examine in diverse empirical contexts how hospitality is experienced, co-created, operationalized and strategically deployed to produce, and occasionally challenge, notions of hospitable destinations. The editorial concludes by reflecting on the implications of the Special Issue articles for future research and practice that adopts hospitality perspectives to plan, manage and examine destinations.

This article examines how migrants create value through food- and hospitality-related enterprises, focusing on the ways in which they exercise their agency in mobilizing various cultural resources and on how their organizational practices intersect with identity work. Drawing on empirical research conducted in São Paulo, Brazil, it explores how specific dishes, knowledge of food, recipes, craft skills, and migration histories are transformed into valued cultural resources in these kinds of enterprises. The article explores three themes: first, how foods become “pliable heritage” through migrants’ identity work; second, how migrants’ ongoing identity work shapes their activities and experiences in food and hospitality businesses; and third, how migrants’ individual identity work is entangled in collective interests and the activities of a wider set of (migrant) stakeholders.