Longing for Belonging among the Marginalized in Urban Australia

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Longing for Belonging among the Marginalized in Urban Australia

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Longing for Belonging among the Marginalized in Urban Australia examines how Indigenous people, African refugees, and impoverished Whites in urban Australia, who are deemed “undesirable citizens” under neoliberal governance, experience citizenship in their everyday lives. Drawing on ethnography conducted in Adelaide and Sydney from 2014 to 2020, along with digital ethnography, it elucidates a new sense of belonging being developed across these groups that is mediated by their shared experiences of displacement and predicaments. While individuals of these groups are marginalized due to the reinforcement of race and homogenization of welfare beneficiaries as morally deficient and are ashamed to be aware of their norm violations, a cross-group sense of belonging has emerged that transverses racial and ethnic differences. It is based on mutual care, compassion, and empathy or a community mediated by the ethics of care, fostering a sense of belonging among members who, according to other paradigms of relatedness, might be seen as separate or unequal. Ritsuko Kurita maintains that this new sense of belonging, rooted in caring for others, can contribute to the development of horizontal citizenship by temporarily bridging differences in race, ethnicity, class, and gender, which can challenge neoliberal citizenship that values economic rationality, self-autonomy, and individualism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Citizenship, Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 2: Transition of “Ideal” Citizenship in Australia
Chapter 3: Indigenous People and Sense of Belonging
Chapter 4: African Refugees and Sense of Belonging
Chapter 5: Impoverished Anglo-Australians and Sense of Belonging
Chapter 6: Civil Communities and New Sense of Belonging
Conclusion
References
About the Author

Product details

Published 23 Sep 2024
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 178
ISBN 9781666956450
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 7 BW Illustrations
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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