Australianama

Australianama
Author: Samia Khatun
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2019-02-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190922605

Charts the history of South Asian diaspora, weaving together stories of various peoples colonized by the British Empire.

Developing a Road Map for Engaging Diasporas in Development

Developing a Road Map for Engaging Diasporas in Development
Author: Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2012
Genre: Aliens
ISBN:

State governments recognize the value diaspora populations bring to development efforts worldwide. Since 2007, the Global Forum on Migration and Development has examined ways to highlight policies and programs that can magnify the resources, both human and financial, that emigrants and their descendants contribute to development. This handbook continues that effort on the basis of earlier investigations by the book's collaborating institutions, the academic and policy literature, consultations and in-depth interviews with government officials and nongovernmental actors, and input by 62 national governments. The handbook is divided into three major parts. Each part gives concrete examples of policies and programs that have been effective, and pulls out both useful lessons and common challenges associated with the topics at hand. The pivotal question now facing many policymakers is not so much if diasporas can benefit their countries of origin but how they do so and what kinds of government policies and programs can foster these relationships.

Temporality in Mobile Lives

Temporality in Mobile Lives
Author: Shanthi Robertson
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2022-07-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1529211522

This innovative study of young Asian migrants’ lives in Australia sheds new light on the complex relationship between migration and time. With in-depth interviews and a new conceptual framework, Robertson reveals how migration influences the trajectories of migrants’ lives, from career pathways to intimate relationships.

The Chinese Face in Australia

The Chinese Face in Australia
Author: Lucille Lok-Sun Ngan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012-06-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1461421314

The book explains how multi-generational Australian-born Chinese (ABC) negotiate the balance of two cultures. It explores both the philosophical and theoretical levels, focusing on deconstructing and re-evaluating the concept of ‘Chineseness.’ At a social and experiential level, it concentrates on how successive generations of early migrants experience, negotiate and express their Chinese identity. The diasporic literature has taken up the idea of hybrid identity construction largely in relation to first- and second-generation migrants and to the sojourner’s sense of roots in a diasporic setting somewhat lost in the debate over Chinese diasporas and identities are the experiences of long-term migrant communities. Their experiences are usually discussed in terms of the melting-pot concepts of assimilation and integration that assume ethnic identification decreases and eventually disappears over successive generations. Based on ethnography, fieldwork and participant observation on multi-generational Australian-born Chinese whose families have resided in Australia from three to six generations, this study reveals a contrasting picture of ethnic identification.

Growing Up Asian in Australia

Growing Up Asian in Australia
Author: Alice Pung
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2015-01-29
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1458798682

Asian - Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award - winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is here in all its steaming glory - but listen more closely to the dinner - table chatter and you might be surprised by what you hear. Here are tales of leaving home, falling in love, coming out and finding one's feet. A young Cindy Pan vows to win every single category of Nobel Prize. Tony Ayres blows a kiss to a skinhead and lives to tell the tale. Benjamin Law has a close encounter with some angry Australian fauna, and Kylie Kwong makes a moving pilgrimage to her great - grandfather's Chinese village. Here are well - known authors and exciting new voices, spanning several generations and drawn from all over Australia. In sharing their stories, they show us what it is really like to grow up Asian, and Australian. Contributors include: Shaun Tan, Jason Yat - Sen Li, John So, Annette Shun Wah, Quan Yeomans, Jenny Kee, Anh Do, Khoa Do, Caroline Tran and many more.

Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia

Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia
Author: Sunil S. Amrith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011-03-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139497030

Migration is at the heart of Asian history. For centuries migrants have tracked the routes and seas of their ancestors - merchants, pilgrims, soldiers and sailors - along the Silk Road and across the Indian Ocean and the China Sea. Over the last 150 years, however, migration within Asia and beyond has been greater than at any other time in history. Sunil S. Amrith's engaging and deeply informative book crosses a vast terrain, from the Middle East to India and China, tracing the history of modern migration. Animated by the voices of Asian migrants, it tells the stories of those forced to flee from war and revolution, and those who left their homes and their families in search of a better life. These stories of Asian diasporas can be joyful or poignant, but they all speak of an engagement with new landscapes and new peoples.

Migration and Integration in Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia

Migration and Integration in Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia
Author: Juliet Pietsch
Publisher: Aup - Iias Publications
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789089645388

This important study brings together an interdisciplinary group of essays by international scholars of European and Southeast Asian regional integration. The contributors examine whether there are useful lessons to be learned from the European experience. It offers an important contribution to the development of the field of regionalism studies.

The sojourner community [electronic resource]

The sojourner community [electronic resource]
Author: Tetsuo Mizukami
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004154795

This book refines the concept of the sojourner vis-a-vis settler which demonstrates the growing significance in contemporary migration issues. It also illustrates the characteristic patterns of contemporary migration by analysing statistical as well as empirical data on Japanese residency in Australia.

Marriage Migrants of Japanese Women in Australia

Marriage Migrants of Japanese Women in Australia
Author: Takeshi Hamano
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2020-08-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789811378508

This book investigates the experience of Japanese women who have immigrated to Australia through marriage to a local partner. Based on long-term participant observations gathered with a Japanese ethnic association in Sydney, and on in-depth interviews with the association’s members, it examines the ways in which the women remould themselves in Australia by constructing gendered selves that reflect their unique migratory circumstances through cross-border marriage. In turn, the book argues that the women tend to embrace expressions of Japanese femininity that they once viewed negatively, and that this is due to their lack of social skills and access to the cultural capital of mainstream Australian society. Re-molding the self through conventional Japanese notions of gender ironically provides them with a convincing identity: that of minority migrant women. Nevertheless, by analyzing these women’s engagement with a Japanese ethnic association in a suburb of Sydney, the book also reveals a nuanced sense of ambivalence; a tension between the women’s Japanese community and their lives in Australia. Accordingly, the book provides a fresh perspective on interdisciplinary issues of gender and migration in a globalized world, and engages with a wide range of academic disciplines including: sociology of migration; sociology of culture; cultural anthropology; cultural studies; Japanese studies; Asian studies; gender studies; family studies; migration studies and qualitative methodologies.

Migration in the Asia Pacific

Migration in the Asia Pacific
Author: Robyn R. Iredale
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781781957028

Includes statistics.