Migration, belonging and the nation state
By: edited by Alperhan Babacan and Supriya Singh
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781443820813
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Globalization; Group identity
Description: "The book questions how modern migration and globalisation have impacted upon notions of belonging and identity within nation-states across the world. This book provides theoretical and empirical accounts of the relationship between identity, rights nationalism, race and ethnicity. The authors cover the complexity of the topic as identification has become much more multifaceted. The authors cover difficult and cutting edge issues relating to citizenship, nation formation, identity, remittances, transnational families, migration and asylum in the context of Australia, Malaysia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. These critical issues inform and shape key policy and program responses of many governments and are subject of topic in international relations forums between nation states."--Publisher description from jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Immigration, nation state and belonging  -- Hurriyet Babacan; title: Contesting belonging: asylum seekers and the Australian state  -- Alperhan Babacan; title: Restoring the rights of asylum seekers in Australia  -- Linda Briskman; title: Crisis of community in the era of mobility? transnationals and belonging  -- Val Colic-Peisker; title: Remittances as a medium of relationship and belonging  -- Supriya Singh, Anuja Cabraal and Shanthi Robertson; title: Migration and belonging: brown Muslim women's experience in Australia  -- Tahmina Rashid; title: Abiding by Malaysia: mediating belonging through cultural contestations  -- Yaso Nadarajah; title: Beyond divisive nationalisms in Sri Lanka: some new perspectives on identity and democracy in the "hybrid island" -- Martin Mulligan.