Migrant Australia

This volume presents inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on migration within and to Australia and addresses pressing related social and political issues: histories of (settler-)colonization and the dispossession of Indigenous Australians, asylum and refugee protection, questions of 'belonging,' human rights, and repercussions for the idea of the nation-state and the promise of multicultural programmes. The contributions to this volume reflect the transdisciplinary methodologies of migration studies and represent current positions of ethnographic, historical, political, legal, literary, and cultural scholars as well as activists. The concerted efforts of established and emerging scholars provide up-to-date analyses of past and present conditions caused by manifold migrations and contribute to a better understanding of the complexities of migration and how they shape and define the twenty-first century. KATRIN ALTHANS, DAVID KERN, AND BEATE NEUMEIER Migrant Australia: An Introduction ............................................................................. 1 BILL ASHCROFT On Postnational Belonging ........................................................................................ 11 SNEJA GUNEW Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators: Australian Im/Em/Migrant Writers Interrogate Museums of Identity ................................................................................ 25 DERYA OZKUL AND SITARAH MOHAMMADI A History of Immigration in Australia: From Colonisation to Externalisation of Asylum ...................................................... 39 JAMAL BARNES Vulnerability and Resistance in Australian Immigration Detention .......................... 53 MATTHEW ZAGOR Between Law and Grace: Refugee Resettlement and the Logic of Australian Generosity ............................................................................................ 67 LOUISE THATCHER Policing the Border in Early White Australia ............................................................ 89 STEFANIE AFFELDT A Japanese Galen Down Under: Doctor Suzuki, Broome, and the Intricacies of 'White Australia' ................................................................... 105 TIHANA KLEPA? What the Mischief is this (Immigrant) Bonnet Doing Here? Mary Helena Fortune in the Age of Australian Nationalist Metanarrative .............. 117 VICTORIA HERCHE 'Boat People' in Australian Cinema: The Missing Boat in Khoa Do's (2009) .............................................. 133 DAVID KERN Being Muslim, Being Australian: Aspects of Literary Activism in Randa Abdel-Fattah's Young Adult Fiction ........................................................ 147 LINA PRANAITYT? Kriol Kitchen in Australia: Migration, Recipes and Inclusive Cookbooks .............. 163 CELINE YAP Australia and the World: Refugee Policies and Strategies - Interview with Elaine Pearson ................................................................................. 179 The Contributors ................................................................................................... 189