Conviviality in everyday multiculturalism: Some brief comparisons between Singapore and Sydney

Wise, Amanda; Velayutham, Selvaraj

doi:10.1177/1367549413510419

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“…A sense of cultural belonging was clearly fostered by spaces for interaction and shared experiences, which confirms previous research on spaces and enablers of conviviality (Wise 2005;Wise and Velayutham 2014) . This relates to both spaces that meet the social, cultural and religious needs of newly arrived communities, such as Muslim prayer rooms, and spaces that allow for interaction and engagement between new arrivals and other residents such as workplaces, schools, sporting facilities, shops or a welcoming church.…”

Section: Conclusion: Conditional Belongings and Contradictory Governmsupporting

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‘Half of Myself Belongs to this Town’: Conditional Belongings of Temporary Migrants in Regional Australia

Boese¹,

Phillips²

2017

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A growing number of temporary visa holders reside in regional Australia, from skilled temporary visa holders to international students at regional university campuses and Working Holiday visa holders. Many of these residents spend prolonged periods of time in regional locations, often alongside groups with other migration and refugee backgrounds, and many hold permanent residency aspirations. This paper contributes to recent scholarship on affective citizenship and place-based belonging through an investigation of the social, cultural and legal dimensions of temporary migrants’ sense of belonging in regional communities. Our analysis of qualitative interviews with regional residents on different temporary visas and local employers and service providers shows that many temporary residents in regional locations develop a feeling of place-based belonging grounded in social relations and shared cultural affiliations as well as the efforts of local stakeholders who are keen to retain migrants in the location. Yet the rights restrictions associated with temporary visas tend to diminish such feelings of belonging and further exacerbate feelings of tenuous belonging for those migrants who are lacking place-based social or cultural connections. We conclude that the multidimensional nature of belonging deserves more attention in the current context of policies that are on the one hand promoting the regional settlement of temporary migrants, whilst on the other hand excluding these migrants from most social rights granted to other taxpayers.

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Section: Conclusion: Conditional Belongings and Contradictory Governmsupporting

confidence: 71%

‘Half of Myself Belongs to this Town’: Conditional Belongings of Temporary Migrants in Regional Australia

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Phillips²

2017

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“…They describe gestures as how we build, maintain and repair the architectures of our everyday intersubjectivity with others (known and unknown). Specific practices of recognition, enquiry, negotiation, incorporation, care and accommodation are not simple attributes of already-formed civic-minded people, but forms of labour which create relationship and meaning (Noble 2013;Wise and Velayutham 2014).…”

Section: The Conceptual and Methodological Challenges Of Convivialitymentioning

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“…Things such as signs in different languages or use of on non-textual signification are shaped by laws and policies directing how we should treat others: urban planning, anti-racism programmes in schools, cultural sensitivity training in workplaces, laws against racial vilification, and good neighbour programmes in local government areas. These policies and programmes entail often ambiguous circuits of recognition: while some of these practices produce resentment, they also help manage protocols of contact and relationship, so the empirical task is to establish when and how they work, and the accommodations and resistances they produce, and the affects of multicultural hope and resentment that they foster (Wise and Velayutham 2014).…”

Section: The Conceptual and Methodological Challenges Of Convivialitymentioning

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Convivialities: An Orientation

Wise

Noble

2016

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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“…Their examples also confirm Valentine's claim that 'in particular spaces there are dominant spatial orderings that produce moments of exclusion for particular social groups' (Valentine, 2007:19). These moments of exclusion were also produced because of a lack of interulturual skills among the long-term residents in these areas resulting from a lack of the daily habits of 'intercultural civility' described by Noble (2013) and others (Sandercock 2003, Wessendorf, 2014Wise & Velayutham, 2014).…”

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Migrant belonging, social location and the neighbourhood: Recent migrants in East London and Birmingham

Wessendorf

2017

Urban Studies

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Scholars examining different aspects of migrant settlement have long recognized the importance of questions around how newcomers forge a sense of connectedness to the society in which they settle. This article contributes new knowledge by focussing on three factors which shape migrants' sense of belonging: firstly, the immigrationrelated diversity of the neighbourhood in which they settle; secondly, the migrants' social location in regards to race, gender, religion and language; and thirdly, migrants' previous experiences of migration-related diversity. Drawing on theories around civility, cosmopolitanism and migrant 'place making', and by comparing recent migrants in Birmingham and East London, the article focuses on the role of social interactions and encounters in public space. While migrants who had little previous experiences of diversity go through a process of multicultural adaptation when settling in ethnically diverse areas, others stressed the need to live in areas characterized by visible diversity because of fear of racism. Furthermore, their sense of belonging was also shaped by previous experiences of exclusion in countries of transit migration. The findings highlight that it is not necessarily the ethnic make-up of a city overall which impacts on a migrants' sense of belonging, but it is the neighbourhood, the immediate locality in which migrants live, and the nature of social interactions with other residents in such areas, which crucially impacts on their sense of inclusion or exclusion.

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Conviviality in everyday multiculturalism: Some brief comparisons between Singapore and Sydney

Cited by 158 publications

References 44 publications

‘Half of Myself Belongs to this Town’: Conditional Belongings of Temporary Migrants in Regional Australia

‘Half of Myself Belongs to this Town’: Conditional Belongings of Temporary Migrants in Regional Australia

Convivialities: An Orientation

Migrant belonging, social location and the neighbourhood: Recent migrants in East London and Birmingham

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