Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

Crossing boundaries: acts of citizenship among migrant youth in Melbourne

This paper focuses on how migrant youth in Melbourne with experience of direct or indirect migration negotiate cross-cultural engagements and tensions between family, community and the greater society in which they are supposed to participate as political subjects. It examines whether the meaning and interpretation of citizenship in Australia allows migrant youth to act as full and active citizens with all the contradictions and difficulties inherent in acting as "a bridge between two worlds". By voicing the personalised journeys of young people dealing with uneasy questions of displacement, identity and belonging, this paper examines the complex ways through which migrant youth negotiate and in some cases bridge intercultural tensions within a multicultural society.

ISSN
2183-2803
Extent
Seite(n): 28-37
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Social Inclusion, 2(2)

Subject
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Soziale Probleme und Sozialdienste
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Jugendsoziologie, Soziologie der Kindheit
soziale Probleme
Migration
Australien
Migrant
Jugendlicher
Migration
Staatsangehörigkeit
multikulturelle Gesellschaft
Engagement

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Mansouri, Fethi
Mikola, Maša
Event
Veröffentlichung
(when)
2014

DOI
Last update
21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST

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Object type

  • Zeitschriftenartikel

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  • Mansouri, Fethi
  • Mikola, Maša

Time of origin

  • 2014

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