Migrant Australia

This volume presents inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on migration within and to Australia and addresses pressing related social and political issues: histories of (settler-)colonization and the dispossession of Indigenous Australians, asylum and refugee protection, questions of 'belonging,' human rights, and repercussions for the idea of the nation-state and the promise of multicultural programmes. The contributions to this volume reflect the transdisciplinary methodologies of migration studies and represent current positions of ethnographic, historical, political, legal, literary, and cultural scholars as well as activists. The concerted efforts of established and emerging scholars provide up-to-date analyses of past and present conditions caused by manifold migrations and contribute to a better understanding of the complexities of migration and how they shape and define the twenty-first century. Contents KATRIN ALTHANS, DAVID KERN, AND BEATE NEUMEIERMigrant Australia: An Introduction ............................................................................. 1 I. Discourses of the Theoretical BILL ASHCROFTOn Postnational Belonging ........................................................................................ 11 SNEJA GUNEWNeo-Cosmopolitan Mediators: Australian Im/Em/Migrant WritersInterrogate Museums of Identity ................................................................................ 25 II. Discourses of the Political and State Actors DERYA OZKUL AND SITARAH MOHAMMADIA History of Immigration in Australia:From Colonisation to Externalisation of Asylum ...................................................... 39 JAMAL BARNESVulnerability and Resistance in Australian Immigration Detention .......................... 53 MATTHEW ZAGORBetween Law and Grace: Refugee Resettlement and the Logicof Australian Generosity ............................................................................................ 67 III. Discourses of the Historical LOUISE THATCHERPolicing the Border in Early White Australia ............................................................ 89 STEFANIE AFFELDTA Japanese Galen Down Under: Doctor Suzuki, Broome,and the Intricacies of 'White Australia' ................................................................... 105 TIHANA KLEPACWhat the Mischief is this (Immigrant) Bonnet Doing Here?Mary Helena Fortune in the Age of Australian Nationalist Metanarrative .............. 117 IV. Discourses of the Cultural and Storyfication VICTORIA HERCHE'Boat People' in Australian Cinema:The Missing Boat in Khoa Do's Mother Fish (2009) .............................................. 133 DAVID KERNBeing Muslim, Being Australian: Aspects of Literary Activismin Randa Abdel-Fattah's Young Adult Fiction ........................................................ 147 LINA PRANAITYT Kriol Kitchen in Australia: Migration, Recipes and Inclusive Cookbooks .............. 163 Coda: Activists' Voices CELINE YAPAustralia and the World: Refugee Policies and Strategies -Interview with Elaine Pearson ................................................................................. 179 The Contributors ................................................................................................... 189