‘Eurasian’: Negotiating a postcolonial identity in everyday life in multicultural Australia

This thesis interrogates the ambiguous and complex understandings surrounding the term ‘Eurasian’, which has emerged in Australia as a political, cultural and social reality from the neighbouring South and Southeast Asian region. Participants’ narratives of migration and identity were examined in or...

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Main Author: Barrett, Michelle Anne
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/825
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description This thesis interrogates the ambiguous and complex understandings surrounding the term ‘Eurasian’, which has emerged in Australia as a political, cultural and social reality from the neighbouring South and Southeast Asian region. Participants’ narratives of migration and identity were examined in order to gain insight into how this particular ‘mixed race’ identity is understood and negotiated in everyday life, and how migration processes which include recreating senses of ‘home’ and belonging, have impacted on these understandings.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-8252017-02-20T06:41:06Z ‘Eurasian’: Negotiating a postcolonial identity in everyday life in multicultural Australia Barrett, Michelle Anne This thesis interrogates the ambiguous and complex understandings surrounding the term ‘Eurasian’, which has emerged in Australia as a political, cultural and social reality from the neighbouring South and Southeast Asian region. Participants’ narratives of migration and identity were examined in order to gain insight into how this particular ‘mixed race’ identity is understood and negotiated in everyday life, and how migration processes which include recreating senses of ‘home’ and belonging, have impacted on these understandings. 2014 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/825 en Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Barrett, Michelle Anne
‘Eurasian’: Negotiating a postcolonial identity in everyday life in multicultural Australia
title ‘Eurasian’: Negotiating a postcolonial identity in everyday life in multicultural Australia
title_full ‘Eurasian’: Negotiating a postcolonial identity in everyday life in multicultural Australia
title_fullStr ‘Eurasian’: Negotiating a postcolonial identity in everyday life in multicultural Australia
title_full_unstemmed ‘Eurasian’: Negotiating a postcolonial identity in everyday life in multicultural Australia
title_short ‘Eurasian’: Negotiating a postcolonial identity in everyday life in multicultural Australia
title_sort ‘eurasian’: negotiating a postcolonial identity in everyday life in multicultural australia
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/825