Overview
- Demonstrates the multi-faceted and liquid nature of Chinese identity over time and space
- Builds on an understanding of the Chinese in Australia in the postmodern context of globalization
- Is one of the first major sociological studies of identity construction among Australian-born Chinese by an insider
Part of the book series: Migration, Minorities and Modernity (MMMO, volume 7)
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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.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dharma Arunachalam, Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia. He was the director of Centre for Population and Urban Research and is a portfolio leader at the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre. His current main areas of research are culture, society and family formation in India and Australia and migration, identity and social cohesion in Australia.
Helen Forbes-Mewett, Associate Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia. She is the editor of the Journal of Sociology, the official journal of the Australian Sociological Association and has published several bookson among others crime, security and vulnerability.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Identity and Belonging Among Chinese Australians
Book Subtitle: Phenotype, Ethnic Language and Cultural Values
Authors: Jennifer Martin, Dharma Arunachalam, Helen Forbes-Mewett
Series Title: Migration, Minorities and Modernity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47862-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-47861-1Published: 21 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-47864-2Due: 04 December 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-47862-8Published: 20 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2522-0713
Series E-ISSN: 2522-0721
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 153
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Political Science, Australasian Culture, Australasian Culture