Critical Reflections on Migration, ‘Race’ and Multiculturalism: Australia in a Global Context

293 Pages·2017·1.875 MB·English

by  Martina Boese, Vince Marotta (eds.)

In this volume, Boese and Marotta bring together some of the finest scholars
in the areas of migration, ‘race’, and multiculturalism. Their contributions
were written against the backdrop of global upheaval which feeds the politics
of exclusion and challenges the way cultures and communities coexist. As
such, this book is an essential primer for all wishing to understand the present
and the future of human sociability in our changing times.
Zlatko Skrbis, Interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Education),
Monash University, Australia

Critical Reflections on Migration,
‘Race’ and Multiculturalism
Migration and its associated social practices and consequences have been
studied within a multitude of academic disciplines and in the context of pol-
icies at local, national and regional level.
This edited collection provides an introduction and critical review of con-
ceptual developments and policy contexts of migration scholarship within an
Australian and global context, through:
• political economy analyses of migration and associated transformations;
• sociological analyses of ‘settling in’ processes;
• multi- disciplinary analyses of migrant work;
• a historical review of scholarship on refugees;
• a Southern Theory approach to cultural diversity;
• sociological reflections on post-n ationalism;
• cultural studies analyses of public culture and ‘second generation’ youth
cultures;
• interdisciplinary and critical race analyses of ‘race’ and racism;
• feminist intersectional analyses of migration, belonging and representation;
• the theorising of cosmopolitanism;
• a transdisciplinary analysis of gender, transnational families and care; and
• a comparative, transcontextual analysis of hybridity.
An essential contribution to the current mapping of migration studies, with a
focus on Australian scholarship in its international context, this collection will
be of interest to undergraduates and postgraduates interested in fields such as
sociology, cultural studies, geography and politics.
Martina Boese is a Lecturer in Sociology at La Trobe University.
Vince Marotta is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Deakin University and
Managing Editor of the Journal of Intercultural Studies (Routledge).
Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
10 Making Diaspora in a Global 17 Contemporary African
City Amer ican Families
South Asian Youth Cultures in Achievements, Challenges, and
London Empowerment Strategies in the
Helen Kim Twenty- First Century
Edited by Dorothy Smith-Ruiz,
11 A Moral Economy of
Sherri Lawson Clark and
Whiteness
Marcia Watson
Four Frames of Racializing
Discourse
18 Return Migration and
Steve Garner
Psychosocial Wellbeing
Edited by Zana Vathi and
12 Race and the Origins of
Russell King
Amer ican Neoliberalism
Randolph Hohle
19 Mapping the New African
13 Experiences of Islamophobia Diaspora in China
Living with Racism in the Race and the Cultural Politics of
Neoliberal Era Belonging
James Carr Shanshan Lan
14 Immigration, Assimilation,
20 Doing Violence, Making
and the Cultural
Race
Construction of Amer ican
Mattias Smangs
National Identity
Shannon Latkin Anderson
21 Critical Reflections on
Migration, ‘Race’ and
15 Blackness in Britain
Multiculturalism
Edited by Lisa Palmer and
Australia in a Global Context
Kehinde Andrews
Edited by Martina Boese and
16 The End of Black Studies Vince Marotta
Conceptual, Theoretical, and
Empirical Concerns
Clovis E. Semmes
Critical Reflections on
Migration, ‘Race’ and
Multiculturalism
Australia in a Global Context
Edited by Martina Boese and
Vince Marotta
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Contents
List of contributors x
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction 1
MARTINA BOESE
PART I
Theories and methodologies in migration research 11
1 Understanding global migration and diversity: a case
study of South Korea 13
STEPhEN CASTLES
2 Multiculturalism and feminism: women and the
burden of representation 32
GEORGINA TSOLIDIS
3 New Australian ways of knowing ‘multiculturalism’ in
a period of rapid social change: when Ibn Khaldun
engages Southern Theory 47
ANDREW JAkUBOWICZ
PART II
Migration, settlement and the state 69
4 Australia’s new guest workers: opportunity or
exploitation? 71
JOCk COLLINS
viii Contents
5 Theorising migrant work beyond economic
multiculturalism and methodological nationalism 88
MARTINA BOESE
6 Producing knowledge about refugee settlement in
Australia 106
kLAUS NEUMANN AND SANDRA M. GIFFORD
PART III
Race, racism and post- nationalism 123
7 (Not) doing race: ‘casual racism’, ‘bystander
antiracism’ and ‘ordinariness’ in Australian racism
studies 125
ALANA LENTIN
8 “It’s the end of the world as we know it . . . and I feel
fine”: considering a postnational world 143
FARIDA FOZDAR
9 ‘Race’ and the lived experiences of Australians of
Sudanese background 159
kAREN FARqUhARSON, DAVID NOLAN AND
TIMOThY MARJORIBANkS
PART IV
Cosmopolitanism and transnationalism 175
10 Australian migrant families and the
transnationalisation of care 177
LORETTA BALDASSAR
11 Capitalism and cosmopolitanism: a very Australian
juxtaposition 194
VAL COLIC- PEISkER
12 Public spaces in the context of the networked citizen
and multicultural societies 209
NIkOS PAPASTERGIADIS, PAUL CARTER, SCOTT
McqUIRE AND AUDREY YUE
Contents ix
PART V
Multiculturalism and constructions of cultural identity 219
13 Sociology of youth and migration research 221
ANITA hARRIS
14 Transnational otherness and the paradox of hybridity
in Singapore and Australia: a critical realist approach 235
VINCE MAROTTA AND PAULA MURACA
15 The ‘career’ of the migrant: time, space and the
settling process 255
GREG NOBLE AND PAUL TABAR
Index 271