ISBN:
9780415665490
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (209 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge research on the global politics of migration 3
Parallel Title:
Print version Migration and Insecurity : Citizenship and Social Inclusion in a Transnational Era
DDC:
304.82019
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book presents an inter-disciplinary investigation into contemporary migration and social inclusion through an examination of migrant and refugee experience.In this edited volume, contributors discuss new understandings of individual and community security in a world where legal borders and definitions of citizenship no longer adequately capture the reality of migration. Distinguished contributors approach questions of social belonging and inclusion from diverse perspectives. Drawing its primary examples from Australia, Migration and Insecurity is framed by the wider experience of the Glob
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Migration and Insecurity; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Detailed synopsis; Chapter 1: Securing twenty-first century societies; Human insecurity and the state; Securing the border; Securing Australia; Securing civic space; Competing dynamics of settlement; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 2: A comparison of asylum seekers in Europe and illegal immigrants in the United States; Introductory remark; Asylum seekers in Europe; Illegal immigrants in the US; Citizenship, membership and marginalization; Concluding thought; Bibliography; Receiving strangeness
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 3: Legacies of war and migration: Memories of war trauma, dislocation and second generation Greek-AustraliansPost-warmigration and the Greek diaspora; Stephen's story; Peter's story; Joanna's story; Legacies of war and migration; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4: An invitation to inclusion: Museums and migration; The social purpose of museums; Museums and citizenship; Public memory: the Immigration Museum, Melbourne; A city museum: Museum of Brisbane; A community museum: the Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne; Communication and inclusion; A world of strangers; Bibliography; Websites
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 5: Negotiating migration, sentiment, and insecurity: Encounters with sadness and shame in Australia(Dis)integration: an archive of migrant feeling; 1 Cornelia, May 2005; 2 Vivian, May 2005; 3 Me, December 2005; 4 Mammad, January 2006; Questioning integration and migrant security through sadness; Strange stories and sad cultures: the 'conundrum' of Cornelia and the 'matter' of Vivian; Shameful (auto)biographies: women (de)facing the nation; Face-to-face in sadness and loss; A thread between others in the face of separation; Lasting impressions; Notes; Bibliography
Description / Table of Contents:
Negotiating integrationChapter 6: Would-becitizens and 'strong states': Circles of security and insecurity; What is the effect of state securitization on irregular migrants?; Does the global movement of people create its own insecurities?; Can irregular migrants generate a politics of localized security?; Underground undergrads; Magic Cleaners; Parents mobilizing for educational justice; Shifting grounds of security; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Negotiating integration: Refugees and asylum seekers in Australia and the UK; Introduction; Refugee integration in a post-multicultural era
Description / Table of Contents:
East AngliaInsecurity; Blending in; Distancing and avoidance; South Australia; Insecurity and assimilation; Blending in and integrating; Bridging distance and questioning integration; Social connection and the integration process; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 8: Transnational practices, social inclusion, and Muslim migrant integration in the West; Introduction; Transnational human mobility and the challenge of national belonging; Transnational ties and Muslim migrant settlement in the West; Critical reflections on 'multiculturalism'; Current study; Data collection; Data analysis
Description / Table of Contents:
Comparative insights into the empirical findings
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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