Making a place in Footscray: everyday multiculturalism,ethnic hubs and segmented geography |
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Authors: | Nicole Oke Christopher C Sonn Christopher McConville |
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Institution: | College of Arts, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia |
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Abstract: | In this article, we explore through analyses of interviews the meanings and experiences of everyday multiculturalism in a suburb in Melbourne, Australia. The people we interviewed valued and experienced diversity in different, yet interrelated ways: as an experience of multiculturalism, as providing comfort in diversity and as embodied in ethnic hubs in a segmented geography. Everyday racism can make forging belonging and connections across diverse ethnic groups difficult. Yet, Footscray is constructed as a place in which diversity is regarded as normative and protective. Our focus on a local suburb has allowed us to develop insight into the diverse ways identities are constituted through multiple understandings and experiences of diversity. |
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Keywords: | Everyday multiculturalism Footscray place-making ethnic group belonging |
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