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Australia's New Migrants: International Students' Affective Encounters with the Border (Studies in Migration and Diaspora)
Maria Elena Indelicato
Hardcover. Routledge 2017-03-07.
ISBN 9781472480484
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This book offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of the tropes employed in the categorisation 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 categorised international students as objects of national compassion or resentment in relation to other national concerns at the time, such as the country's place in the Asia-Pacific region, its sovereignty, the integrity of its borders and the relative competitiveness of its economy. Applying an innovative methodology, which combines the breath of a diachronic study with the depth afforded by the close analysis of a diverse range of case studies - including the protests staged by Indian international students against a spate of violent attacks, which led to their problematisation in national discourses - Australia's New Migrants constitutes an important contribution to our understanding of the ways in which emotion shapes public and media debate. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural geography and education with interests in migration and affect
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