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List of contents
Introduction 1. "Listen and You’ll Hear": Autoethnography and Educational Desire 2. Autoethnographic Stories in Academia from Two Women of Diasporas 3. Melbourne Musings: On Narrative Mediation 4. The interplay of acculturation attitudes, cultural beliefs and educational values in negotiating my identity as an Indo-Australian academic 5. Narrative of Multiculturalism: aptly describing where I am today as an early childhood educator 6. The dilemma of being seen and unseen: my dark skin amongst the white walls 7. The colonisation of spiritual identity: Implications for belonging, social cohesion and wellbeing in Australian Catholic Education 8. Transnational women of Indian origin: intra-hybridity shifts and the continual topos of ‘being’ 9. Reflections through the Looking Glass: Voices from Strong Women of Urban Pakistan 10. Renegotiation of identity in Australia through the Reunionese art form: Maloya 11. In Conversation: Suneeta Peres da Costa & Roanna Gonsalves 12. The ‘emotional and affective labour’ as a transnational woman in negotiating intimacies with cultural ‘others’ and homeland friends 13. Transient Temples’: How do I pray to my old Gods on these new lands, in this new home? 14. Everyday Objects and Conversations: Experiencing ‘Self’ in the Transnational Space of the United Kingdom 15. Between Hypervisible and Invisible: Modi, Marriage and Migrant Women in Australian Media
About the author
Nish Belford is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. Her current research interests include migration and transnational studies with a particular focus on women migrants’ challenges with education, homing, family, cultural beliefs, diasporic identities and their gendered subjectivities.
Reshmi Lahiri-Roy is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University, Australia. Her current research interests include issues of identity and belonging in relation to diasporas with special focus on women migrants within the spaces of education, sociology and cultural studies.
Summary
This book explores the influence which education and migration experiences have on migrant Asian women in Australia and the United Kingdom when (re) negotiating their identities.
