Civic and ethno belonging among recent refugees to Australia
Australia offers some of the best government-funded settlement services in the world to refugees who come through its official resettlement programme. These services cater to their material, medical and, to some extent, their social needs. However, services cannot provide a sense of belonging to peo...
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| description | Australia offers some of the best government-funded settlement services in the world to refugees who come through its official resettlement programme. These services cater to their material, medical and, to some extent, their social needs. However, services cannot provide a sense of belonging to people uprooted from their homelands and transplanted to a culturally and geographically distant place. Or can they? This article explores the facets of belonging identified inductively from a corpus of data from qualitative interviews with 77 refugees living in Western Australia. Thematically, these map clearly onto civic and ethno conceptualizations of the nation-state and belonging within it. While refugees assert their civic belonging in terms of access to services and rights available to refugees and to Australians more broadly, their sense of ethno belonging is much more ambivalent, due to experiences with the mainstream population. Implications in regard to the concept of the nation-state, and for processes of integration and social inclusion, are considered. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-30032021-01-12T05:26:44Z Civic and ethno belonging among recent refugees to Australia Fozdar, F. Hartley, Lisa refugees civic and ethno nationalism belonging integration Australia post-national cosmopolitan Australia offers some of the best government-funded settlement services in the world to refugees who come through its official resettlement programme. These services cater to their material, medical and, to some extent, their social needs. However, services cannot provide a sense of belonging to people uprooted from their homelands and transplanted to a culturally and geographically distant place. Or can they? This article explores the facets of belonging identified inductively from a corpus of data from qualitative interviews with 77 refugees living in Western Australia. Thematically, these map clearly onto civic and ethno conceptualizations of the nation-state and belonging within it. While refugees assert their civic belonging in terms of access to services and rights available to refugees and to Australians more broadly, their sense of ethno belonging is much more ambivalent, due to experiences with the mainstream population. Implications in regard to the concept of the nation-state, and for processes of integration and social inclusion, are considered. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3003 10.1093/jrs/fet018 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT100100432 Oxford University Press fulltext |
| spellingShingle | refugees civic and ethno nationalism belonging integration Australia post-national cosmopolitan Fozdar, F. Hartley, Lisa Civic and ethno belonging among recent refugees to Australia |
| title | Civic and ethno belonging among recent refugees to Australia |
| title_full | Civic and ethno belonging among recent refugees to Australia |
| title_fullStr | Civic and ethno belonging among recent refugees to Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Civic and ethno belonging among recent refugees to Australia |
| title_short | Civic and ethno belonging among recent refugees to Australia |
| title_sort | civic and ethno belonging among recent refugees to australia |
| topic | refugees civic and ethno nationalism belonging integration Australia post-national cosmopolitan |
| url | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT100100432 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3003 |