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dc.contributor.authorFozdar, F.
dc.contributor.authorHartley, Lisa
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T10:27:46Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T10:27:46Z
dc.date.created2014-01-16T20:01:04Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationFozdar, Farida and Hartley, Lisa. 2014. Civic and ethno belonging among recent refugees to Australia. Journal of Refugee Studies. 27 (1): pp. 126-144.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3003
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/jrs/fet018
dc.description.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.

dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.relation.sponsoredbyhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT100100432
dc.subjectrefugees
dc.subjectcivic and ethno nationalism
dc.subjectbelonging
dc.subjectintegration
dc.subjectAustralia
dc.subjectpost-national
dc.subjectcosmopolitan
dc.titleCivic and ethno belonging among recent refugees to Australia
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume1
dcterms.source.startPage1
dcterms.source.endPage19
dcterms.source.issn0951-6328
dcterms.source.titleJournal of Refugee Studies
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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

curtin.departmentSchool of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultyFaculty of Humanities
curtin.contributor.orcidHartley, Lisa [0000-0002-1812-1279]
curtin.contributor.scopusauthoridHartley, Lisa [44761290100]


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