Arab-Australians Today
Citizenship and Belonging
$54.99
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
3 February 1998
Summary
Arab-Australians Today raises important questions about immigration, settlement, marginalisation and participation in Western societies.Arab people first came to Australia in the late nineteenth century. Today more than half a million Australians claim some form of Arab ancestry.They are a diverse group, both socially and economically. New South Wales, for example, appointed Australia’s first Lebanese Governor, while at the same time it was labelling groups of economically deprived young peop…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522849790 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522849792 |
| Author: | Ghassan Hage |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 3 February 1998 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 217mm x 143mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
“A well presented collection of essays… Arab perspectives and cultural values are given full play, and a challenging postscript was added after September 11.” –The Australian Higher Education Supplement“This important collection raises fundamental questions about citizenship and belonging in an historical era in which identity is even more ethnicised than it used to be, and where struggles over access to citizenship, dispossession and colonialism are heavily invested with ethnic and racial features.” –Australian Book Review
About The Author
Ghassan Hage
Ghassan Hage is professor of anthropology and social theory at the University of Melbourne. He has held many international visiting professorships including at Harvard, at The Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, The University of Copenhagen and The American University of Beirut. He works in the areas of comparative nationalism, racism and multiculturalism. He is the author of many publications in this domain; most known among them is White Nation- Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society (Routledge 2000). He also works in social theory with a particular interest in the work of Pierre Bourdieu.
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