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.


Contents

KATRIN ALTHANS, DAVID KERN, AND BEATE NEUMEIER
Migrant Australia: An Introduction ............................................................................. 1

I. Discourses of the Theoretical
BILL ASHCROFT
On Postnational Belonging ........................................................................................ 11

SNEJA GUNEW
Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators: Australian Im/Em/Migrant Writers
Interrogate Museums of Identity ................................................................................ 25

II. Discourses of the Political and State Actors
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

III. Discourses of the Historical
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 KLEPAČ
What the Mischief is this (Immigrant) Bonnet Doing Here?
Mary Helena Fortune in the Age of Australian Nationalist Metanarrative .............. 117

IV. Discourses of the Cultural and Storyfication
VICTORIA HERCHE
‘Boat People’ in Australian Cinema:
The Missing Boat in Khoa Do’s Mother Fish (2009) .............................................. 133

DAVID KERN
Being Muslim, Being Australian: Aspects of Literary Activism
in Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Young Adult Fiction ........................................................ 147

LINA PRANAITYTĖ
Kriol Kitchen in Australia: Migration, Recipes and Inclusive Cookbooks .............. 163

Coda: Activists’ Voices
CELINE YAP
Australia and the World: Refugee Policies and Strategies –
Interview with Elaine Pearson ................................................................................. 179

The Contributors ................................................................................................... 189