Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World - Refugee Youth and the Pursuit of Identity

In the context of young people's heightened politicization, Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World, focuses on a group of Sudanese and Karen refugee youth's own insights, explanations and practices as they attempt to create a sense of identity and belonging.

List 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
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Index

About the author

LAURA MORAN is a cultural anthropologist who researches issues of youth and identity, race and ethnicity, the refugee experience, and multicultural inclusion. She lives in the northeastern United States.
 

Product details

• Authors: Laura Moran
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781978803053
• ISBN: 978-1-978803-05-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood St; Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies; Rutgers Childhood Studies; Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education