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Political Memories and Migration

Belonging, Society, and Australia Day

J. Olaf Kleist (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

222 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
9781137575883 (ISBN)

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This book explores the relationship between political memories of migration and the politics of migration, following over two hundred years of commemorating Australia Day. References to Europeans’ original migration to the continent have been engaged in social and political conflicts to define who should belong to Australian society, who should gain access, and based on what criteria. These political memories were instrumental in negotiating inherent conflicts in the formation of the Australian Commonwealth from settler colonies to an immigrant society. By the second half of the twentieth century, the Commonwealth employed Australia Day commemorations specifically to incorporate new arrivals, promoting at first citizenship and, later on, multiculturalism. The commemoration has been contested throughout its history based on two distinct forms of political memories providing conflicting modes of civic and communal belonging to Australian politics and policies of migration. Introducing the concept of Political Memories, this book offers a novel understanding of the social and political role of memories, not only in regard to migration.

J. Olaf Kleist is a Researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, University of Osnabrück, Germany.

1. Memories and Migration: Politics of Belonging.- 2.Australia Day from Colony to Citizenship: 1788-1948.- 3.Australia Day from Citizenship to Multiculturalism: 1948-1988.- 4. Pasts and Politics: Beyond the Boundaries of Belonging.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Australia • Australia Day • belonging • Citizenship • Immigration • Memory • Migration • Political Memories
ISBN-13	9781137575883 / 9781137575883
Zustand	Neuware