Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations

Fethi Mansouri holds a Chair in Migration and Intercultural Studies and is the Director of the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Australia. He is the co-author of Lives in Limbo: Voices of Refugees under Temporary Protection, and Australia and the Middle East: A Frontline Relationship, and co-editor of Islam and Political Violence: Muslim Diaspora and Radicalism in the West. Dr. Michele Lobo is Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Australia.

Presenting the latest empirical research from Australia and engaging with contemporary global debates on questions of identity, citizenship, intercultural relations and social inclusion, this book unsettles fixed assumptions about who is included as a valued citizen and explores the possibilities for engendering inclusive visions of citizenship in local, national and transnational spaces.

Contents: Introduction: social inclusion: exploring the concept, Fethi Mansouri and Michele Lobo; Part I Identity and Social Inclusion: From multiculturalism to social inclusion: the resilience of Australian national values since federation, Giancarlo Chiro; Constructing Australian citizenship as Christian: or how to exclude Muslims from the national imagining, Farida Fozdar; Australian Muslims: indicators of social inclusion, Riaz Hassan; Waves of migration: exclusion and inclusion: the experiences of Polish Australians, Danielle Drozdzewski; The deliberative politics of cultural diversity: beyond interest and identity politics?, Selen Ayirtman Ercan. Part II Citizenship and Social Inclusion: Whiteness and Australian suburbia, Michele Lobo; Avenues for belonging: civic and ethnic dimensions of multicultural citizenship in Australia, Lejla Voloder; Socially inclusive school environments: identity development and active citizenship, Louise Jenkins; Negotiating norms of inclusion: comparative perspectives from Muslim community leadership in the West, Fethi Mansouri, Michele Lobo and Rim Latrache. Part III Intercultural Relations and Spaces of Social Inclusion: Social cohesion/social inclusion in Australia, Andrew Markus; Australian racism and anti-racism: links to morbidity and belonging, Jacqueline K. Nelson, Kevin M. Dunn and Yin Paradies; Transnationalism , social inclusion and the city, Ruth Fincher; Home, mobility and the encounter with otherness, Vince P. Marotta; Bibliography; Index.