Belonging and becoming in a multicultural world : refugee youth and the pursuit of identity / / Laura Moran

• Autore: Moran Laura K. <1978->
• Pubblicazione: Rutgers University Press, 2019; New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2020; ©2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 pages) : digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 305.2350869140994
• Soggetto topico: Teenage refugees - Australia; Assimilation (Sociology) - Australia; Multiculturalism - Australia; Group identity - Australia
• Soggetto non controllato: Social Science; Emigration & Immigration
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "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." -- Publisher's website.
• Titolo autorizzato: Belonging and becoming in a multicultural world
• ISBN: 1-9788-0306-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910433251203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Rutgers series in childhood studies.