(Dis)comfort in the city: How young travellers in London negotiate mobility within the city

Conflicting claims are made about the extent to which Travellers in Britain remain outsiders urban society (McGarry 2017; Sibley 1981). This paper sheds light on this question by addressing a neglected aspect of Traveller mobility, namely day-to-day traversing spaces beyond their (typically segregated) trailer sites. Focusing public transport, it draws eighteen months ethnographic research with young people from backgrounds London-based youth group understand nature encounters they have as go out and city. The is interested place affect these encounters, more generally, affect's role shaping – or failing shape Travellers' behaviour. considers discomfort experienced through mobility Travellers; argues that encouraged elders discipline regulate emotional responses non-Travellers constitutes evidence continuing outsider status.