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 Sudanese and Karen refugees is a continual process shaped by powerful social forces.

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: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2019
• EAN: 9781978803060
• ISBN: 978-1-978803-06-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous