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    Civic and ethno belonging among recent refugees to Australia

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    Open access
    Authors
    Fozdar, F.
    Hartley, Lisa
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Citation
    Fozdar, Farida and Hartley, Lisa. 2014. Civic and ethno belonging among recent refugees to Australia. Journal of Refugee Studies. 27 (1): pp. 126-144.
    Source Title
    Journal of Refugee Studies
    DOI
    10.1093/jrs/fet018
    ISSN
    0951-6328
    Faculty
    Faculty of Humanities
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
    Funding and Sponsorship
    http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT100100432
    Remarks

    This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Refugee Studies following peer review. The version of record for Farida, F. and Hartley, L. 2015. Civic and Ethno Belonging among Recent Refugees to Australia. Journal of Refugee Studies. 27 (1): pp. 126-144, is available online at: http://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fet018

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3003
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Australia offers some of the best government-funded settlement services in the world to refugees who come through its official resettlement programme. These services cater to their material, medical and, to some extent, their social needs. However, services cannot provide a sense of belonging to people uprooted from their homelands and transplanted to a culturally and geographically distant place. Or can they? This article explores the facets of belonging identified inductively from a corpus of data from qualitative interviews with 77 refugees living in Western Australia. Thematically, these map clearly onto civic and ethno conceptualizations of the nation-state and belonging within it. While refugees assert their civic belonging in terms of access to services and rights available to refugees and to Australians more broadly, their sense of ethno belonging is much more ambivalent, due to experiences with the mainstream population. Implications in regard to the concept of the nation-state, and for processes of integration and social inclusion, are considered.

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