Identities, Aspirations and Belonging of Cosmopolitan Youth in Australia

Collins, Jock; Reid, Carol; Fabiansson, Charlotte

doi:10.5130/ccs.v3i3.2315

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“…These sensations highlight the globalised, fluid and hybrid nature of Somali Australians' belonging, a finding that is consistent with what we know about immigrant minority youth in Australia (Collins, Reid, & Fabiansson, 2011). In the sports context, this has involved football teams composed of young Somali Australian men travelling to Sweden and Canada to compete in international football events such as the African Unity tournament.…”

Section: Transnational Belongingsupporting

confidence: 56%

Refugee youth, belonging and community sport

2014

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This article examines community sport as a site where refugee youth negotiate belonging, which is conceptualised as a dynamic dialectic of 'seeking' and 'granting'. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork among Somali Australian youth at community football (soccer) clubs in Melbourne, the article identifies the kinds of belonging that are constructed by refugee youth in community sport, the social processes that facilitate or impede these belongings, and the forms of boundary work involved. The belonging negotiated by Somali Australian youth in community sports clubs is multi-layered, dynamic and situational, and involves multiple boundary shifts. It operates at varying scales of experience from the sports team and local community to the transnational. The article shows that while social boundaries such as clan, team and locality are porous, other boundaries of inclusion/exclusion, notably gender, ethnicity and religion, tend to be more stable and more difficult to cross for Somali Australian youth in community football clubs.

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Section: Transnational Belongingsupporting

confidence: 56%

Refugee youth, belonging and community sport

2014

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“…In Jon Stratton's germinal account in Race Daze, he introduces the concept as referring to: how cultures, produced by individuals in their everyday lives, merge, creolise and transform as people live their lives, adapting to and resisting situations, and (mis)understanding, loving, hating and taking pleasure in other people with whom they come into contact. (Stratton 1998: 15) In Australia, scholars have taken up this rubric to produce enriched understandings of the unspectacular daily business of living in diversity, in a cultural climate where multiculturalism has come under renewed attack from the (re)emergence of Hansonism, Islamophobia, and moral panics about "ethnic gangs" (Ang et al 2002;Wise 2005;Stratton 2006;Bloch and Dreher 2009;Wise and Velayutham 2009;Colic-Peisker and Farquharson 2011;Ho 2011;Wise 2011;Collins, Reid and Fabiansson 2011;Harris 2013).…”

Section: Revisiting Everyday Multiculturalism and Everyday Racismmentioning

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Iphones and “African gangs”: everyday racism and ethno-transnational media in Melbourne’s Chinese student world

Martin

2018

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Based on an ethnography of young women from China studying in Melbourne, this article explores participants' experiences of living in a super-diverse city, and questions whether extant theoretical accounts of everyday multiculturalism are adequate to understand the experience of these residents. In 2016, Melbourne's Chinese student community was rocked by a prolonged spate of mobile phone thefts that Chinese-language social media framed as ethnically targeted attacks on Chinese people by "African gangs." This article considers participants' responses to these incidents, alongside the racialized reportage of them on the WeChat public accounts that are participants' main source of local news. The article mounts a critique of the media ethics inherent in this form of news delivery. It extends the everyday multiculturalism framework with an example that deals not with a strongly hybrid migrant youth culture, but rather with young migrants socialized into a monocultural society encountering everyday life in super-diversity.

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“…And yet, they were, at the same time, thoroughly at home and integrated in their local communities, and within their multicultural friendship networks, where they felt a strong sense of loyalty and belonging. Adopting a postnationalist, cosmopolitan stance, Collins et al (2011) argued that policy-makers had nothing to fear from this apparent detachment of multicultural Sydney youth from Australian national identity, as they were nevertheless well integrated contributors to their local communities and transnational networks.…”

Section: Australia and Postnationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Globalisation, postnationalism and Australia

Moran

2020

Journal of Sociology

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Postnational institutions and identities are products of globalisation. How far along the ‘postnational’ road the world has travelled is debatable. In the early 2000s Habermas referred to an emerging ‘post national constellation’. While the nation-state is still an important institutional form, postnational identities and experiences challenge the boundaries of nation-states, and also national identities. Cosmopolitanism as an outlook, set of predispositions and practices is often seen as postnational, and celebrated as such, since it implies the embrace of humanity beyond nation. To what extent have national identities (as opposed to other kinds of identities) been threatened, undermined or superseded by postnational identities? To what extent is the postnational a utopian hope for a cosmopolitan future, and to what extent is the postnational already upon us – whether we recognise it or not? What are the most convincing examples of postnationalism? This article addresses such questions, with a focus on Australia.

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Identities, Aspirations and Belonging of Cosmopolitan Youth in Australia

Abstract: This article presents the results of a survey of the attitudes,

Cited by 13 publications

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Refugee youth, belonging and community sport

Refugee youth, belonging and community sport

Iphones and “African gangs”: everyday racism and ethno-transnational media in Melbourne’s Chinese student world

Globalisation, postnationalism and Australia

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