Arab-Australians Today Citizenship and Belonging

by Hage, Ghassan

• ISBN13: 9780522849790
• ISBN10: 0522849792
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-03
• Publisher: Melbourne University Press

Summary

Study of Arab immigration to Australia. Discusses the way early Arabs were received in Australia and examines the diverse lives of groups of people, ranging from entrepreneurs to unemployed youth. Analyses issues such as 'Lebanese gangs' and how assimilation occurs. Includes notes, bibliography and index. Author is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney. Previous titles are 'Home/World' and 'White Nation'.

Author Biography

Ghassan Hage is professor of anthropology and social theory at the University of Melbourne. He has held many international visiting professorships including at Harvard, at The Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, The University of Copenhagen and The American University of Beirut. He works in the areas of comparative nationalism, racism and multiculturalism. He is the author of many publications in this domain; most known among them is White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society (Routledge 2000). He also works in social theory with a particular interest in the work of Pierre Bourdieu.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contributors
Citizenship and Honourability: belonging to Australia today	p. 1
Whitewashed: the Lebanese in Queensland, 1880-1947	p. 16
From 'White Australia' to Multiculturalism: citizenship and identity	p. 37
The Arab Diaspora: immigration history and the narratives of presence, Australia, Canada and the USA	p. 63
Arab Entrepreneurs in Australia	p. 92
On being Lebanese-Australian: hybridity, essentialism and strategy among Arabic-speaking youth	p. 128
'Street Arabs' and 'Mug Lairs': racism, class relations and moral panic about Lebanese-Australian youth	p. 145
Arab-Australian Women's Activism	p. 161
The Australian Arabic Council: anti-racist activism	p. 173
The Differential Intensities of Social Reality: migration, participation and guilt	p. 192
Injuries and Identities: authorising Arab diasporic difference in crisis	p. 206
Being Elsewhere: on longing and belonging	p. 225
Postscript: Arab-Australian belonging after 'September 11'	p. 241
Notes	p. 249
Bibliography	p. 268
Index	p. 282
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