Arab-Australians Today

by Ghassan Hage

Overview

The Arab community in Australia is one of the oldest and most established of its immigrant ethnic communities. Together, the various works brought together here cover most aspects of Arab–Australian lives that are of importance today: the history of settlement, attitudes about citizenship, Arab women’s activism, Arab antiracism activism, the position of Arab youth between two cultures, nostalgia and homesickness, everyday life in an Arab “ethnic” suburb, and questions of identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780522849790
Publisher:	Melbourne University Publishing
Publication date:	04/02/2002
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

Ghassan Hage is senior lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Sydney and is a leading scholar in the areas of nationalism, whiteness, multiculturalism, and the immigrant experience. He is the author of White Nation and the coauthor of Homeworld.

Editorial Reviews

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.” —Australian Book Review

“A well presented collection of essays... Arab perspectives and cultural values are given full play, and a challenging postscript was added after September 11.” —The Australian Higher Education Supplement

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