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Crossing boundaries: acts of citizenship among migrant youth in Melbourne
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Abstract This paper focuses on how migrant youth in Melbourne with experience of direct or indirect migration negotiate cross-cultural engagements and tensions between family, community and the greater society in which they are supposed to participate as political subjects. It examines whether the meaning an... view more
This paper focuses on how migrant youth in Melbourne with experience of direct or indirect migration negotiate cross-cultural engagements and tensions between family, community and the greater society in which they are supposed to participate as political subjects. It examines whether the meaning and interpretation of citizenship in Australia allows migrant youth to act as full and active citizens with all the contradictions and difficulties inherent in acting as "a bridge between two worlds". By voicing the personalised journeys of young people dealing with uneasy questions of displacement, identity and belonging, this paper examines the complex ways through which migrant youth negotiate and in some cases bridge intercultural tensions within a multicultural society.... view less
Keywords
Australia; migrant; adolescent; migration; citizenship; multicultural society; involvement
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Sociology of the Youth, Sociology of Childhood
Social Problems
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
Page/Pages
p. 28-37
Journal
Social Inclusion, 2 (2014) 2
Issue topic
Migrant youth, intercultural relations and the challenges of social inclusion
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution