Spaces to Speak: Challenging Representations of Sudanese-Australians

Nunn, Caitlin

doi:10.1080/07256861003606366

Cited by 77 publications

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“…In addition, an ambivalent relationship with the 'refugee' label often complicates matters for Sudanese migrants in resettlement: on the one hand it has been necessary to access services and educational support (Harris, 2011b;Nunn, 2010). On the other, it has quickly become an unwanted static label which eventually serves to 'remarginalise and exclude' within countries of resettlement (Hebbani et al, 2010: 44).…”

Section: Bigger Dreams For Refugee-background Womenmentioning

confidence: 96%

Gains and losses: African Australian women and higher education

Harris

Spark

Watts

2014

Journal of Sociology

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This article argues that African women migrants in Australia are increasingly enrolling in and successfully completing tertiary study, usually at high emotional and financial cost. While this qualitative study has shown that both refugee-background and non-refugee African Australian women's enrolment in higher education is enabling new forms of participation and belonging in resettlement, it continues to challenge the women's more traditional cultural roles and identities. This article argues that these gendered negotiations are noted only cursorily (if at all) within education and health contexts, and, importantly, form a primary obstacle facing African Australian women in migration and refugee resettlement transition.

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Section: Bigger Dreams For Refugee-background Womenmentioning

confidence: 96%

Gains and losses: African Australian women and higher education

Harris

Spark

Watts

2014

Journal of Sociology

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“…According to Nunn (2010), refugees, more generally, are portrayed as personifying the violence that ousted them from home and bestowed them the label. This argument is consistent with the findings of Loo's (1994) assessment of Vietnamese coverage in the media and copious works on Middle Eastern, mainly Muslim, Australians (Poynting et al 2001).…”

Section: The African-australians In Australian Social Discoursementioning

confidence: 98%

“…Analysis of how African-Australians are portrayed in Australian sociopolitical discourse, has, since November 2007, tended to begin with the murder of Liep Gony, a Sudanese teenager brutally assaulted in Noble Park in Melbourne's southeast (Nunn 2010, Due 2008. However, the construction of African-Australians as a group goes a little further beyond 2007.…”

Section: The African-australians In Australian Social Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

‘Out of place’? An auto-ethnography of refuge and postcolonial exile

Run

2012

African Identities

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The nature of postcolonial exile has changed considerably over the last two or three decades. The demography of migrants has shifted from intellectual dissidents and the participants in brain drain exoduses to all kinds of refugees and asylum seekers. Scholarship on this subject is vast but there is one group that is emerging and scarcely understood -the African-Australians of refugee background. This article seeks to contribute a part of that story using autobiographical or auto-ethnographical insight. My choice of this approach is predicated on the belief that it exploits personal experiences as units within the collective experience of a people. As a refugee from Sudan with some years in Kenya, I have found by experience and in autobiographies of others that blackness trumps African-ness in Diasporic identity constructions in the Western world. This, I argue, masks the ways in which African-Australians are generally understood as reflected in public discourse.

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“…Indeed, a media frenzy erupted creating moral panic (Baak, 2011a(Baak, , 2011bGatt, 2011). Despite the fact that he was killed as a result of racial attack, the news reports created a discourse that attempted to highlight it as his fault (Due, 2008;Windle, 2008;Nunn, 2010).…”

Section: Institutional 'Othering' In Mass Media and The Legal Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sudanese Humanitarian Migrants in Australian Refereed Journals

Wickramaarachchi¹,

Burns²

2016

ARAS

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This article reviews the literature about Australian South Sudanese humanitarian migrants in refereed journals, and is underpinned by a concern for the settlement experiences of migrants and the reduced effectiveness of research which is compartmentalised into different academic disciplinary fields. Though a large volume of academic work has paid attention to many themes and issues, the present review identifies gaps in the understanding of Sudanese and South Sudanese views on family violence, economic stress, issues specific to older migrants, and perceptions of racialised policing. This article suggests the importance of bringing available knowledge from different disciplines into an accessible and crossreferenced platform to better serve southern Sudanese migrants' needs in assisting successful establishment of their new lives in Australia.

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Spaces to Speak: Challenging Representations of Sudanese-Australians

Cited by 77 publications

References 12 publications

Gains and losses: African Australian women and higher education

Gains and losses: African Australian women and higher education

‘Out of place’? An auto-ethnography of refuge and postcolonial exile

Sudanese Humanitarian Migrants in Australian Refereed Journals

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