Remembering the family home: emotions, belonging, and migrant men in multicultural Australia
Article
Article Title | Remembering the family home: emotions, belonging, and migrant men in multicultural Australia |
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ERA Journal ID | 34876 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
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 |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q21xv/remembering-the-family-home-emotions-belonging-and-migrant-men-in-multicultural-australia
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