ABSTRACT

This book presents an inter-disciplinary investigation into contemporary migration and social inclusion through an examination of migrant and refugee experience.

In this edited volume, contributors discuss new understandings of individual and community security in a world where legal borders and definitions of citizenship no longer adequately capture the reality of migration. Distinguished contributors approach questions of social belonging and inclusion from diverse perspectives. Drawing its primary examples from Australia, Migration and Insecurity is framed by the wider experience of the Global North, with examples from Europe, the United Kingdom and United States woven throughout the collection. An inter-disciplinary approach to migration studies, this book integrates local, national and transnational spaces in its discussion of new constructs of inclusion and security. It considers questions of historical memory, ontological security, transnational communities, the role of civic institutions and social relationships in local spaces to guide the reader towards the wider conceptual questions of migration studies using expertise from the fields of sociology, gender, historical and political studies

Migration and Insecurity will be of interest to students and scholars of transnationalism, migration politics and international relations.

part |54 pages

Receiving strangeness

chapter 3|17 pages

Legacies of war and migration

Memories of war trauma, dislocation and second generation Greek-Australians

chapter 4|16 pages

An invitation to inclusion

Museums and migration

chapter 5|20 pages

Negotiating migration, sentiment, and insecurity

Encounters with sadness and shame in Australia

part |60 pages

Negotiating integration

chapter 6|21 pages

Would-be citizens and ‘strong states'

Circles of security and insecurity

chapter 7|19 pages

Negotiating integration

Refugees and asylum seekers in Australia and the UK

part |40 pages

Securing long-term belonging

chapter 9|20 pages

Equal valued status

Belonging, identity and place

chapter 10|19 pages

Citizens of nowhere

Refugees, integration criteria, and social inclusion