1st Edition

Australia's New Migrants International Students’ History of Affective Encounters with the Border

By Maria Elena Indelicato Copyright 2018
204 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of the tropes employed in the categorization of international students living and studying in Australia. Establishing the position of migrant students as ’subjects of the border’, the author employs various models of emotion in an analysis of the ways in which public debates on migration and education in Australia have problematised... Read more

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Where I Come From: Emotions, Race and the Border

1. Becoming ‘Illegal’: Compassion, Multicultural Love and Resentment

2. Failing to Be(come) ‘Ideal’: Multiculturalism, Whiteness and the Politics of Resentment

3. Think Before You Travel: Urban Violence, Risk Management and the Territorialisation of the Australian Public Space

4. ‘Is Australia Racist?’: Interpretive Denial and the Politics of Anger

5. Feeling like an International Student: Racial Grief, Compassion and National Sentimentality

Conclusion: Fantasies of Multiculturalism: Whiteness, Emotions and the Border

Index

Biography

Maria Elena Indelicato is Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at the Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, China.