South Sudanese diaspora in Australia and New Zealand : reconciling the past with the present / / edited by Jay Marlowe, Anne Harris and Tanya Lyons

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787160203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-4438-6867-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 pages)
• Disciplina: 304.890629; 305.8
• Soggetti: South Sudanese - Australia - Social conditions; South Sudanese - New Zealand - Social conditions; Refugees - South Sudan; Refugees - Australia; Refugees - New Zealand
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: South Sudanese diaspora in global contexts / Tanya Lyons -- People of Sudanese heritage living in Australia: implications of demography for individual and community resilience / Julie Robinson -- A statistical profile of the Sudan-born in Australia / Barbara Edgar -- Being South Sudanese in the diaspora: exploring the relationship between pre-migration, identity and labeling / Melissa Phillips -- Still `Working the hyphen': intercultural collaboration as creative research / Nyadol Nyuon -- South Sudanese resettlement: acculturation strategies and social capital / Jay Marlowe -- Falling through the cracks: Southern Sudanese refugees' experiences of housing and accommodation shortage in South Australia / Lino Lejukole -- Longitudinal evidence on educational and occupational outcomes amongst South Sudanese men from refugee backgrounds living in urban and regional southeast Queensland / Gerald Onsando -- At the meatworks and beyond: Southern Sudanese employment experiences in regional Australia / Martina Boese -- Navigating intercultural difference: understanding the perspective of Sudanese former refugee women in Australia / Helen Bristed -- What ; language is Nuba? Translocative identities in the Sudanese Nuba Australian diaspora / Michele Grossman -- Agency and belonging: Southern Sudanese former refugees' reflections on life in Australia / Janecke Wille -- Australian family law: a difficult adjustment for South Sudanese communities / Danijela Milos -- Blocked opportunity and threatened identity: understanding experiences of disrespect in South Sudanese Australians / Ibolya Losoncz -- Positive parenting: integrating Sudanese traditions and New Zealand styles of parenting. An evaluation of Strategies with Kids-Information for Parents (SKIP) / Fiona Pienaar -- The settlers' dream: resettlement experiences of Sudanese refugees in New Zealand / Julius Marete -- Sudanese diaspora: reconciling the past with the present / Jay Marlowe.
• Sommario/riassunto: Since 1996, approximately 30,000 South Sudanese people have immigrated to Australia and New Zealand via humanitarian pathways. This text offers insight into these associated communities' resettlement experiences and provides a broader sociological context in which the South Sudanese diaspora can be seen within global migration studies. The text's strength is its close relationship to the work of culturally and disciplinarily diverse scholars bringing contemporary research on South Sudanese re...