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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.
Summary
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.
