Belonging and becoming in a multicultural world : refugee youth and the pursuit of identity

Belonging and becoming in a multicultural world refugee youth and the pursuit of identity

"Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Brisbane, Australia, Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World provides a critical analysis of the shortcomings and underpinning contradictions of modern multicultural inclusion. It demonstrates how creating a sense of identity among young Sud...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Funded by Knowledge Unlatched funder (funder)
Other Authors: Moran, Laura K., 1978- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press 2019
2020
Series:Rutgers series in childhood studies.
Subjects:
Teenage refugees > Australia.
Assimilation (Sociology) > Australia.
Multiculturalism > Australia.
Group identity > Australia.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430284606719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Fieldwork and research foundations
  • 2. Multicultural Australia and the refugee experience: ethnographic settings
  • 3. Identity in theory: responsiveness and belonging among refugee youth
  • 4. Everyday identity: self and belonging through friendship, fighting and dating
  • 5. Performing identity: capital and connecting in multicultural context
  • 6. Politicizing identity: engaging racism, citizenship and the nation
  • 7. Self, belonging and multicultural morality
  • Appendix
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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