Abiding Arabs in Australia. "Arab-Australians Today: Citizenship and Belonging", by Ghassan Hage (ed.). [review]
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2002-06
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Yeatman, Anna
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Australian Book Review
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Abstract
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. The book contains Australian histories of Arab (primarily, but not exclusively, Lebanese) immigrant communities and of the discrimination and exclusion they have faced at different stages in Australia. However, the most theoretical of the articles offer insights that are of value to all who seek to understand immigration, exile and minority status in relation to citizenship in the state societies of the modern West.
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Book review, Migrants -- Australia
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Yeatman, Anna 2002. Abiding Arabs in Australia. Review of "Arab-Australians Today: Citizenship and Belonging" by Ghassan Hage (ed.). 'Australian Book Review', No 242, June/July, 53-54.