中文摘要：

门禁社区作为一种全球现象引起了学界的广泛关注.当前研究中,空间、制度、经济和社会维度是学者们关注的焦点,对门禁社区的文化分析则相对薄弱.研究基于我国社会情境,从“边界”和“家”这两个不同,却又相互交织的理论视角出发,探讨围墙的意义和家的构建,对国际范围内关于门禁社区的争论提供文化的视角.采用实地调查和深度访谈方法,研究发现,“家”的构建是通过创建“边界”来实现的.门禁社区的围墙和大门不仅仅是物质性的边界,更是一种社会和文化建构,它构建了“家”,同时也成为围墙内外居民争夺“家园”的象征.

英文摘要：

The rise of gated communities has become a global phenomenon. Accordingly,the discussion around gated communities has been lively with observationsin a variety of cities world widely. However, most of the research focuseson the spatial, institutional, economic and social dimensions of gatedcommunity while the cultural analysis of the emergence of gated communities isrelatively weak. In addition, a wide range of research has focused on the relevanceto the broader context of race, minority and class, and the enclosedcompounds are interrogated as privileged construction depending on distancingand separation from marginalized others. On the studies of gated communitiesin China, for example, the affluent middle class group and foreigners employedby multinationals in China have been concerned. On the contrary, this paperdraws attention to the new urban immigrants emerged in transitional China, andargues that the gated communities are socially constructions of creating homelyhomes for this group. First, the paper explores the ways in which the conceptualizationsof home and family have been mobilized by the developers tomarketing the real estates. It reveals that the elements of an ideal home arepromoted intensively, and moving beyond the household scale and stretchingover the estate space at large. Then, the study shifts to the sense of homeexperienced by the inhabitants living inside the gated communities. The resultsshow that the imaginary home is bound up with the material boundaries.Finally, the paper highlights the investigation on the perceptions, attitudesand living experiences of the adjacent neighborhoods. Despite the resistancepractices of reclaiming home space, the general views towards the boundariesare not negative. In regarding the scale of home, the residents living outsideexperience a wider home than their neighbors living in the enclosed enclave.This study contributes to the further understanding of the relationship betweenthe boundary and the home-making practice and also makes new perspectiveto the de