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Immigrants' Citizenship Perceptions: Sri Lankans in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

Immigrants' Citizenship Perceptions: Sri Lankans in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

Jayawardena, Pavithra
Mann, Jatinder

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Transnationalism, Book 6

Biographies GeneralAustralia & OceaniaAnthropology

ISBN10: 1433189488
ISBN13: 9781433189487
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Nov 29 2022
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Adopting a transnational lens, Immigrants' Citizenship Perceptions: Sri Lankans in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand investigates Sri Lankan immigrants' complex views towards their home (Sri Lankan) and host (Australian or Aotearoa New Zealand) citizenship and the factors that affect them. The book argues that the existing citizenship policies and popular discourses towards immigrants have a strong nation-statist bias in which native citizens believe that they know how exactly immigrants should behave or feel as host citizens. The book problematises this assumption by highlighting the fact that it represents more how immigrants' citizenship perceptions should be while ignoring how they actually are. Unlike native citizens, immigrants must balance two different positions in how they view citizenship, that is, as native citizens of their home countries and as immigrants in their host countries. These two positionalities lead immigrants to a very different perspective of citizenship. Deliberating on the complexities displayed in Sri Lankan immigrants' views on their home and host citizenship, the book presents a critical analysis of citizenship views from immigrants' standpoint. This book will hence be useful for policy makers, students, and researchers in the fields of migration and citizenship as it looks at immigrants' contextual realities in depth and suggests an alternative approach to understanding their perceptions of citizenship.

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