Migration, Diaspora and Identity: Cross-National Experiences

218 Pages·2014·1.663 MB·English

by  Georgina Tsolidis (auth.), Georgina Tsolidis (eds.)

International Perspectives on Migration 6
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Migration,
Diaspora
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Cross-National Experiences
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Georgina Tsolidis
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Migration, Diaspora
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Cross-National Experiences
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Georgina Tsolidis
School of Education and Arts
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Ballarat , Australia
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Acknowledgements
I would like to acknowledge Maria Tsolidis whose memories of how things were
continue to inspire; Eirene and Alexis Tsolidis-Noyce whose hopes for the future
make efforts worthwhile; David Sharples for his support, particularly his meticu-
lous engagement with the technicalities of page layout; the contributing authors
who shared their ideas with me; and the staff at Springer, particularly Bernadette
Deelen-Mans, for all their work.
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Contents
Introduction: Does Diaspora Matter When Living
Cultural Difference? ....................................................................................... 1
Georgina Tsolidis
Part I Multiple Belongings
Living on the Move: Belonging and Identifi cation Among Adolescent
Children of Immigrants in Italy .................................................................... 19
Enzo Colombo
Muslim Women in Western Preschooling: Diasporic Effects
on Identity Issues............................................................................................. 37
Jeanette Rhedding-Jones
‘When I Land in Islamabad I Feel Home and When I Land
in Heathrow I Feel Home’: Gendered Belonging
and Diasporic Identities of South Asian British Citizens
in London, in Leicester and in North England............................................. 51
Ulrike M. Vieten
Part II Representing a Way of Being
Refugee Women, Education, and Self Authorship ....................................... 77
Melinda McPherson
Invoking an Ivory Tower: Journalistic Misrepresentation
of Me as a Critic of Race and the Content of My Criticisms ...................... 95
Stella Coram
‘Trouble in the Mall Again’: Naming as Social Drama
in Multicultural Melbourne ........................................................................... 109
Vikki Pollard and Georgina Tsolidis
Beyond Fear and Towards Hope: Transnationalism
and the Recognition of Rights Across Borders ............................................. 123
Peter Gale
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Part III Sexualised Identifi cations
Pedagogies of the Japanese Diaspora: Racialization
and Sexualization in Australia ....................................................................... 141
Julie Matthews and Yuriko Nagata
Body as Gendered and Sexualised and Recent Migration
of Poles to the United Kingdom ..................................................................... 157
Bernadetta Siara
Part IV Marriage and Family
Men’s Experiences and Masculinity Transformations:
Migration and Family Reunifi cation in the Bangladeshi Diaspora
in Italy .............................................................................................................. 175
Francesco Della Puppa
Shifting Gender Roles and Shifting Power Relations:
Immigrant/Migrant Nepali Families in New York and Los Angeles .......... 191
Shobha Hamal Gurung
Comparing the Family Lives of Vietnamese Wives
in Taiwan and the USA ................................................................................... 203
Chyong-fang Ko
Index ................................................................................................................. 219
Introduction
Does Diaspora Matter When Living
Cultural Difference?
Georgina Tsolidis
Introduction
I grew up with what I have subsequently come to realise, was an unrealistic sense
that speaking many languages and living amongst diverse communities was not only
possible but normal and desired. My parents were born and reared in Egypt. I spent a
childhood listening to stories told by nostalgic adults describing life in Cairo or Suez.
The stories told in Greek and Arabic with smatterings of French and English would
begin slowly, reach a crescendo of excitement and invariably move to the point where
the sadness of remembering times no longer lived overtook the joy. I was told that
a cosmopolitan life was possible with very little money. A few coins would buy you
a drink and an opportunity for dancing at a café along the c orniche where my grand-
father worked as a waiter. Fueled by tiny sepia photographs and on the basis of the
fashions of the day, my mother and father morphed into Humphrey Bogart and
Ingrid Bergman and Cairo, in my imagination, became Casablanca minus the Nazis.
After leaving Egypt, Melbourne became the third city of settlement for my parents.
In the 1960s Melbourne was coming to terms with the mass migration that has
subsequently come to defi ne its character. Suburbs close to factories became home
for many migrant families. Where we lived, it was common to hear Greek, Italian,
Serbian, Macedonian or Croatian and become acquainted with these different com-
munities and their histories of migration. In contrast to their life in Egypt, my family
experienced Australia as xenophobic. I have a vivid memory of my father arguing
with my teacher after he inquired about which languages were offered at the school.
He was told that no ‘foreign’ languages were offered and further to this, I would be
better served if my parents spoke English at home. Speaking other languages would
inhibit my scholastic development. My father explained, in extremely animated
tones, that if people could learn three or four languages at school where he grew up,
G. Tsolidis (*)
School of Education and Arts , University of Ballarat , P.O. Box 663 , Ballarat 3353 , Australia
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