Remembering the family home: emotions, belonging, and migrant men in multicultural Australia

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Mason, Robert. 2013. "Remembering the family home: emotions, belonging, and migrant men in multicultural Australia." Journal of Australian Studies. 37 (3), pp. 378-389. https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2013.813573

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Article Title	Remembering the family home: emotions, belonging, and migrant men in multicultural Australia
ERA Journal ID	34876
Article Category	Article
Author	Mason, Robert
Journal Title	Journal of Australian Studies
Journal Citation	37 (3), pp. 378-389
Number of Pages	12
Year	2013
Publisher	Routledge
Place of Publication	Melbourne, Australia
ISSN	0314-769X
	1444-3058
	1835-6419
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2013.813573
Abstract	The article opens a space in which to discuss migrant men's emotions and their engagement with family life. It focuses on Australia's Goan community to explore the fluidity of ethnic identity and its relation to remembered family and childhood. The article suggests a 'family' that is not only a domestic home but is constituted across both time and space. The men's memories of their childhood and family life prior to arrival in Australia are central to their constitution of self within Australia. These memories provide the men with the emotional means to contest their positioning in Australia's multicultural framework. The men's memories of childhood are experienced beyond domestic and multicultural spaces, making remembered families an important part of their work lives and sense of success in Australia.
Keywords	Indian Australians; migration; multiculturalism
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020	470211. Migrant cultural studies
	500318. Philosophy of specific cultures (incl. comparative philosophy)
	520599. Social and personality psychology not elsewhere classified
Public Notes	© 2013 Copyright International Australian Studies Association. Published version deposited in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
Byline Affiliations	School of Humanities and Communication
Institution of Origin	University of Southern Queensland

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