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Afrodiasporic Identities in Australia: Articulations of Blackness and Africanness: Articulations of Blackness and Africanness
Springer Singapore
2022
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Abstract
This book explores the Afro-diasporic experiences of African skilled migrants in Australia. It explores research participants' experiences of migration and how these experiences inform their lives and the lives of their family. It provides theory-based arguments examining how mainstream immigration attitudes in Australia impact upon Black African migrants through the mediums of mediatised moral panics about Black criminality and acts of everyday racism that construct and enforce their 'strangerhood'.
The book presents theoretical writing on alternate African diasporic experiences and identities and the changing nature of such identities. The qualitative study employed semi-structured interviews to investigate multiple aspects of the migrant experience including employment, parenting, family dynamics and overall sense of belonging. This book advances our understanding of the resilience exercised by skilled Black African migrants as they adjust to a new life in Australia, with particular implications for social work, public health and community development practices.
Details
- Title
- Afrodiasporic Identities in Australia: Articulations of Blackness and Africanness
- Creators
- Kathomi Gatwiri - Southern Cross UniversityLeticia Anderson - Southern Cross University
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore; Singapore
- Number of pages
- XXVI, 168
- Identifiers
- 9811942811; 9789811942815; 991013043013502368
- Copyright
- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Social Work; Humanities; Faculty of Health; Centre for Children and Young People
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book