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Book Identity and Belonging  First Generation Chinese Migrant Children in Australia

Download or read book Identity and Belonging First Generation Chinese Migrant Children in Australia written by Albert Ding and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student research report into the experiences of first-generation Chinese migrant children in Australia.

Book Identity and Belonging Among Chinese Australians

Download or read book Identity and Belonging Among Chinese Australians written by Jennifer Martin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the ethnic identity construction involved in ‘being’, ‘feeling’ and ‘doing’ Chinese for multi-generation Australian-born Chinese, who were born and raised in a different social environment. It demonstrates how Chineseness is manifested in a multitude of ways and totally debunks any notion that being Chinese is a simple identity marker. The book shows that while there are commonalities with the American-born, the experiences of Australia-born Chinese are distinct in many ways. This book is a timely and critically examination of the inescapability of Chineseness particularly when social and economic stability is threatened and those in power are looking for a scapegoat.

Book The Chinese Face in Australia

Download or read book The Chinese Face in Australia written by Lucille Lok-Sun Ngan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains how multi-generational Australian-born Chinese (ABC) negotiate the balance of two cultures. It explores both the philosophical and theoretical levels, focusing on deconstructing and re-evaluating the concept of ‘Chineseness.’ At a social and experiential level, it concentrates on how successive generations of early migrants experience, negotiate and express their Chinese identity. The diasporic literature has taken up the idea of hybrid identity construction largely in relation to first- and second-generation migrants and to the sojourner’s sense of roots in a diasporic setting somewhat lost in the debate over Chinese diasporas and identities are the experiences of long-term migrant communities. Their experiences are usually discussed in terms of the melting-pot concepts of assimilation and integration that assume ethnic identification decreases and eventually disappears over successive generations. Based on ethnography, fieldwork and participant observation on multi-generational Australian-born Chinese whose families have resided in Australia from three to six generations, this study reveals a contrasting picture of ethnic identification.

Book New Chinese Immigrants in New Zealand

Download or read book New Chinese Immigrants in New Zealand written by Liangni Sally Liu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on new immigrant families from the People’s Republic of China to New Zealand and investigates how these families have adapted to New Zealand immigration policy regime, which does not accommodate their cultural preference to live as multigenerational families easily. The book analyses a three-generation framework: First-generation adult immigrants, their children and older parents. It examines how migratory mobility and intergenerational dynamics configure migratory trajectories of individual family members and shape their family lives and sense of identity. The book sheds light on how different family generations pursue their own interests and goals while maintaining family unity and cohesiveness in contexts of increasing transnational mobility opportunities and constraints. It also investigates how familial ties, transnational connections and a sense of identity and belonging are defined and redefined during the process of transnational migration. This book can serve as a heuristic reference to and meaningful comparative parameter for studying transnational family migration in other contexts. As a significant theoretical contribution to the theory of transnational family formation in contexts where restrictive immigration policies result in members of multigenerational families living across different countries, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of sociology, anthropology, race and ethnic studies as well as Asian and Chinese studies.

Book Growing Up Asian in Australia

Download or read book Growing Up Asian in Australia written by Alice Pung and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian - Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award - winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is here in all its steaming glory - but listen more closely to the dinner - table chatter and you might be surprised by what you hear. Here are tales of leaving home, falling in love, coming out and finding one's feet. A young Cindy Pan vows to win every single category of Nobel Prize. Tony Ayres blows a kiss to a skinhead and lives to tell the tale. Benjamin Law has a close encounter with some angry Australian fauna, and Kylie Kwong makes a moving pilgrimage to her great - grandfather's Chinese village. Here are well - known authors and exciting new voices, spanning several generations and drawn from all over Australia. In sharing their stories, they show us what it is really like to grow up Asian, and Australian. Contributors include: Shaun Tan, Jason Yat - Sen Li, John So, Annette Shun Wah, Quan Yeomans, Jenny Kee, Anh Do, Khoa Do, Caroline Tran and many more.

Book Defining and Negotiating Identity and Belonging

Download or read book Defining and Negotiating Identity and Belonging written by Wenting Liao and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Living Intersections  Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia

Download or read book Living Intersections Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia written by Caroline Plüss and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents ground-breaking theoretical, and empirical knowledge to produce a fine-grained and encompassing understanding of the costs and benefits that different groups of Asian migrants, moving between different countries in Asia and in the West, experience. The contributors—all specialist scholars in anthropology, geography, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology—present new approaches to intersectionality analysis, focusing on the migrants’ performance of their identities as the core indicator to unravel the mutual constituitivity of cultural, social, political, and economic characteristics rooted in different places, which characterizes transnational lifestyles. The book answers one key question: What happens to people, communities, and societies under globalization, which is, among others, characterized by increasing cultural disidentification?

Book Chinese Migrants Ageing in a Foreign Land

Download or read book Chinese Migrants Ageing in a Foreign Land written by Shuang Liu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances a new understanding of acculturation processes for older migrants, drawing on empirical data from migrants of Chinese heritage in Australia. It challenges the traditional models of acculturation, questions the conventional notion of integration and analyses the fluid nature of cultural identities. Drawing on insights from environmental gerontology, intercultural communication and acculturation theories, it conceptualises ageing in a foreign land as a home-building process, highlighting the collective contributions of individual, community, social, cultural, technological and environmental factors to older migrants’ well-being. A consideration of what it means to age ‘in place’ for those whose home is not necessarily attached to one place and one culture, this volume will appeal to social scientists with interests in ageing, gerontology, migration and diaspora, as well as those working in the fields of aged care policy.

Book Exploring Issues of Identity and Belonging 2012

Download or read book Exploring Issues of Identity and Belonging 2012 written by Robert Beardwood and published by Insight Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight Contexts provides students with a variety of writing tips and strategies for developing excellent Context responses.

Book The Structuration of Cultural Identity Through Everyday Space

Download or read book The Structuration of Cultural Identity Through Everyday Space written by N. Liu Fan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation project is an examination of how 2nd generation Chinese American children's cultural identity is constructed and reconstructed through a geographic lens across children's everyday space including home, school and community. Interdependent relationships are also examined between cultural structures and children's agency when children's space is considered geographically, and collectively at various levels. Drawing upon a multidisciplinary perspective, this project analyzes immigrant children's cultural identity in a middle class ethnoburb context in a southern city in the U.S. Building on structuration theory, the notion of children's agency, and the geographical interpretation of identity and social boundaries, this study asks: how children's life is culturally structured at home, in school and community; if there is any, how children's agency is enacted through social interactions within their environment at those places; and how cultural structure and agency as well as space are interdependent, explaining the discourse of 2nd generation immigrant children's construction of cultural identity. Through online survey, in-depth interviews, observations and field notes, ethnographic data was collected on 30 participating children and their parents, community leaders, institutional officials, local event organizers and other relevant adults at children's everyday spaces of homes, school and various community locations. Analysis of the data demonstrated that these children's everyday life is differently structured at home, school and community in terms of cultural orientation, and children have to frequently compare, reinterpret and switch back and forth between different cultural expectations and norms to make sense of their social world, expressing their sense of cultural identity. It was highlighted that the resistance between cultural structures and children's agency across space are ever changing, reflecting children's sense of belonging to their ethnic and national identities "here and now". The results imply that immigrant children's childhood experience can be seen as a reflection of social structures simultaneously at local, national and global levels.

Book Australians of Chinese Background from Mainland China

Download or read book Australians of Chinese Background from Mainland China written by Jennifer Martin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Story   A study on Chinese cultural Identity in Australia

Download or read book My Story A study on Chinese cultural Identity in Australia written by Hong Fan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research project is a part of the Cultural Identity Research led by the Confucius Institute at the University of Western Australia which focuses on the Chinese who have migrated to Australia since China opened up to the world in the 1980s. In this book we will tell the stories of these ordinary Chinese, their happiness and sorrows, inspirations and difficulties,, and through recorded oral histories we will analyse their cultural identity, and their experience of integration with, and contribution to, this vast far away land. Most of our interviewees, even if they have been living in Australia for many years, struggle to convey their cultural identity. This project is a precursor to further research on this fascinating universal issue for immigrants.

Book Chinese Migration and Settlement in Australia

Download or read book Chinese Migration and Settlement in Australia written by C. Y. Choi and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Intergenerational Ethnic Identity Construction and Transmission among Italian Australians

Download or read book Intergenerational Ethnic Identity Construction and Transmission among Italian Australians written by Simone Marino and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the transmission of ethnic identity across three generations of Italian-Australians, specifically Italian-Australians of Calabrian descent in the Adelaide region of Australia. Simone Marino analyzes ethnographic data collected over a three-year period to consider individual, familial and community cultural practices, as well as societal influences on ethnic identity transmission, in order to present generational differences in the understandings of Italian-Australian identity. Among other factors, the role of community events, community networks, and cultural practices associated with being Italian-Australian are examined. The transmission of ethnic identity is analysed through the lens of sociological theories, including Sayad's concept of double absence and Bourdieu's ideas of habitus and cultural capital, and is considered at the macro, meso, and micro spheres of social life. Ultimately, Marino’s study reveals clear generational differences amongst Italian-Australians: the first generation, those who arrived from Italy, manifest a condition of feeling absent, the second generation present a condition of ‘in-between-ness’, between the world of their immigrant parents and that of Australians, and the third generation experience a sense of ethnic revival.

Book Political Communications in Greater China

Download or read book Political Communications in Greater China written by Gary D. Rawnsley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-08 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors examine the role played by political communications in a variety of media in defining and shaping identity in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and amongst overseas Chinese.

Book Public Sociology

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Germov
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2023-05-12
  • ISBN : 1000821269
  • Pages : 642 pages

Download or read book Public Sociology written by John Germov and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Sociology highlights the relevance of sociological perspectives to Australian social life and encourages students to apply a sociological gaze to their own lives and the communities in which they live. This fully revised and updated fifth edition adds new chapters and material on a wide range of contemporary issues, from the COVID-19 pandemic and ‘fake news’ to Iindigenous issues and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Public Sociology presents a wide range of topics in a user-friendly and accessible way, introducing key theories and research methods, and exploring core themes, including youth, families and intimate relationships, class and inequality, and race and ethnic relations. All chapters have been extensively revised to bring them up to date in a fast-changing social world, reflecting the latest sociological debates in response to changing lifestyles and evolving political landscapes. In addition to updated statistics and research findings, an expanded glossary and the latest citations to the scholarly literature, each chapter includes numerous learning features for students and instructors, including definitions of key terms, concise summaries of main points, discussion questions and guides to further reading and additional resources. This is the essential sociological reference to help students in the social sciences make sense of a complex and challenging world. New to the Fifth Edition: New chapters on the COVID-19 pandemic, Indigenous issues, youth and identity, and sport Exploration of the latest social issues including the pandemic, BLM, expanded discussion of gender, #MeToo, LGBTIQ+ and intersectionality, rising inequality and the ‘post-truth’ age All chapters thoroughly revised and updated with the latest research Updated design, images, and chapter opening vignettes to engage the reader

Book Beyond China

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yuanfang Shen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book Beyond China written by Yuanfang Shen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: