A Muslim diaspora in Australia : Bosnian migration and questions of identity
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A Muslim diaspora in Australia : Bosnian migration and questions of identity
I.B. Tauris, 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-177) and index
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Description
In a world of increasingly mixed identities, what does it mean to belong? As western democracies increasingly curtail their support for multiculturalism, how can migrants establish belonging as citizens? A Muslim Diaspora in Australia explores how a particular migrant group has faced the challenges of belonging. The author illustrates how Bosnian migrants in Australia have sought to find places for themselves as migrants, as refugees, and as Muslims, in Australia and Australian society. Challenging the methodological nationalism that tends to dominate discussions of migrant identities, the author exposes the ways in which dignity emerges as a dominant concern for people as they relate to varied local, national and translational contexts. Very little is known about how migrants themselves read and react to the multiple challenges of belonging and this pioneering work offers a timely and much needed critical insight into what it means to belong.
Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction
Don't you know where you are!
Questions of identity
Researching at home
Researching as an insider
Insiders and outsiders
Cultural or cognitive discordance?
Assimilating migrants or assimilating knowledge?
Chapter 1
Legal and symbolic citizenship
The meeting of Muslim minds
Ethnic communities in a multicultural society
Do you know who you are?
Diaspora
Bosnian diaspora
Muslim diaspora
Bosniak communities
Interpreting meetings, interpreting identities
Chapter 2
Muslims in public places
Designating Muslims and Muslim names
Perpetuating marginality
Islam is in my heart, not on my sleeve
Comparing secularisms
Australia as a Christian country
An a-religious Bosnian Muslim community
Muslim but a-religious
A-religious Muslims in Yugoslavia
Was religion a private matter?
Humanity not religious identities
Chapter 3
Fear in the suburbs
Politicization of religious identities
Disruptions to citizenship
Sensing fear toward the census
Aunt Huria's fears
Chapter 4
With peace
A Muslim reversion
Essential identities
Inflexible Muslims
Emotions of Islam
Rationalizing Islam
Chapter 5
Eid celebration
Mobilizing multicultural Muslims
Emotions of ethno national identity
Deference to the state
The trouble with citizens and Muslim identity
Conclusion
The state of nations
Organizing communities
Muslimness of Muslims
Individuals within communities
Bibliography
Index
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