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  • Incorporating Injustice: Immigrant Vulnerability and Latin Americans in Multicultural Australia

    Author(s)
    Mason, R
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Mason, Robert
    Year published
    2014
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    Abstract
    The article focuses on the emotional connections that bind migrants in Australia with their former homes. More specifically, it analyses how Australian migrants respond to perceptions of continuing injustice in their countries of birth. The article is based on a study of Latin American Australians, a group whose diversity offers conceptual spaces through which to explore emotional connections and transference between groups in Latin America and Australia. I focus on emotion and activist engagement, arguing that it is indicative of migrants’ response to vulnerability and injustice in contemporary multiculturalism. As such, ...
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    The article focuses on the emotional connections that bind migrants in Australia with their former homes. More specifically, it analyses how Australian migrants respond to perceptions of continuing injustice in their countries of birth. The article is based on a study of Latin American Australians, a group whose diversity offers conceptual spaces through which to explore emotional connections and transference between groups in Latin America and Australia. I focus on emotion and activist engagement, arguing that it is indicative of migrants’ response to vulnerability and injustice in contemporary multiculturalism. As such, Latin American Australians offer an important example of Australia’s changing experience of multicultural and transnational connectivity, the significance of which extends beyond the particular community.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Intercultural Studies
    Volume
    35
    Issue
    5
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2014.944112
    Subject
    Australian history
    Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/172494
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