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ARAB-AUSTRALIANS TODAY
CITIZENSHIP AND BELONGING |
By: |
Ghassan Hage (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£31.95 |
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ISBN 10: |
0522849792 |
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9780522849790 |
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MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
3 February, 1998 |
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256 |
Description: |
The Lebanese and, more generally, the Arab community in Australia is one of the oldest ethnic communities. The essays and works in this volume cover the most important aspects of Arab-Australian's lives: settlement history, attitudes to citizenship, women's activism and identity, among others. |
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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 people as Lebanese gangs . Victoria s Premier, Steve Bracks, comes from a Lebanese background. Melbourne has an important Arab business community, while newly arrived Arab immigrants have one of the highest rates of unemployment in the country. Arab-Australians Today raises important questions about immigration, settlement, marginalisation and participation in Western societies. It discusses the way early Arab immigrants were received in Australia and talks about contemporary issues of participation in the Australian political process. It examines the lives of diverse groups of people, ranging from entrepreneurs to Arab women activists to unemployed youth. It analyses issues ranging from the ways Arab-Australians grow to call Australia home, to the moral panic created around Arab youth and criminality. The book |
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Australia |
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Melbourne University Press |
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