Multiculturalism as nation-building in Australia: Inclusive national identity and the embrace of diversity

Moran, Anthony

doi:10.1080/01419870.2011.573081

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“…Identity acculturation is not a one-sided process (Berry 1997), and the relations implied within the process of assimilation are not singular (Brubaker 2001). The potential of national identity effectively to accommodate minority or immigrant groups is an important component of the extent to which minorities can and will identify with it (Moran 2011). While Scottish identity is being recast as a more 'inclusive' identity (Bechhofer and McCrone 2012), the 'rise' of English identity (Wyn Jones et al 2012) may herald a redrawing of national boundaries to a more 'ethnic' conception of nation (Smith 1991), with consequences for its inclusivity (Reeskens and Wright 2013).…”

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“…In the face of strong academic as well as political conviction that national identity is central to social cohesion (Moran 2011;Reeskens and Wright 2014), the quantitative evidence base relating to minority or immigrant national identification and its correlates and consequences has been growing (e.g. Lam and Smith 2010;Diehl and Schnell 2006;Fischer-Neuman 2013;Georgiadis and Manning 2013;Kesler and Schwartzman 2014).…”

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Patterns of minority and majority identification in a multicultural society

Nandi¹,

Platt²

2015

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Original citation:Nandi, Alita and Platt, Lucinda (2015) Patterns of minority and majority identification in a multicultural society. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38 (15 This document is the author's final accepted version of the journal article. There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it. 1 Patterns of minority and majority identification in a multicultural societyAlita Nandi and Lucinda Platt * Abstract There has been increasing investigation of the national and ethnic identification of minority populations in Western societies and how far they raise questions about the success or failure of multicultural societies. Much of the political and academic discussion has, however, been premised on two assumptions. First that ethnic minority and national identification are mutually exclusive, and secondly that national identification represents an overarching majority identity, which represents consensus values. In this paper, using a large-scale nationally representative UK survey with a varied set of identity questions, and drawing on an extension of Berry's acculturation framework, we empirically test these two assumptions. We find that, among minorities, strong British national and minority identities often coincide and are not on an opposing axis. We also find that adherence to a British national identity shows cleavages within the White majority population. We further identify variation in these patterns by generation and political orientation.

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Patterns of minority and majority identification in a multicultural society

Nandi¹,

Platt²

2015

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…Its borders of inclusion have expanded over time with the diversification of the population and the 'de-emphasizing' of ethnicity in public discourse (Moran 2011), providing greater opportunities for cultural belonging among non-Anglo Australians. However, interviewees' accounts demonstrate that the relative emphasis on ethnicity or culture varies across contexts, mediating possibilities for belonging.…”

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Negotiating national (non)belongings: Vietnamese Australians in ethno/multicultural Australia

Nunn

2015

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“…In the analysis presented here we are interested in the way in which there appear to be two dominant discourses concerning Australian values and education that have largely operated in parallel rather than explicitly interconnecting. These discourses are located within an Australian context which is increasingly characterised by its diversity (nearly half of Australian citizens are either born overseas or have at least one parent born overseas) and which, as with many other comparable nations, has a recent history of trying to accommodate heterogeneity with some form of shared, common national identity (Moran, 2011). In the sections which follow we argue that the two discourses alluded to in this introduction have differently positioned Australian values within education and schooling, the first in terms of securitisation and the second in terms of westernisation.…”

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Securitisation and/or Westernisation: dominant discourses of Australian values and the implications for teacher education

Peterson

Bentley

2016

Journal of Education for Teaching

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Australian education and schooling. In our analysis we suggest that the two dominant discourses, one focusing on securitisation and one on westernisation, have to this point operated separately, but have both focused on narrow, fixed and forced understandings of Australian values. Exploring the key themes of these two discourses, some important issues for teacher educators are set out, including the need to mediate these discourses against research evidence which suggests the importance of holistic and co-operative pedagogical relationships based on trust and humility for effective values education. Though our analysis focuses on the Australian context, the arguments made are likely to be of interest elsewhere given current debates about national values in education across a range of jurisdictions.

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Multiculturalism as nation-building in Australia: Inclusive national identity and the embrace of diversity

Cited by 129 publications

References 19 publications

Patterns of minority and majority identification in a multicultural society

Patterns of minority and majority identification in a multicultural society

Negotiating national (non)belongings: Vietnamese Australians in ethno/multicultural Australia

Securitisation and/or Westernisation: dominant discourses of Australian values and the implications for teacher education

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