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ItemBeefeaters, bobbies, and a new Varangian Guard? Negotiating forms of “Britishness” in suburban Australia( 2004)The recent emergence of “Britfests” provides a point of departure for investigating the complex transitional narratives of migrancy, ethnicity, and “belonging” among British migrants in modern Australia. We argue that the recreational representation of “Britishness” at these events reflects broader trends in the re-imagination of “Britishness” in Australia now a source of popular and scholarly debate. Such events are seen as representative of a newly-emergent sense of identity among British migrants — an organic reawakening of “community” pride, nationhood, and sense of privilege in a society that publicly proclaims a multiculturally-hued nationalism. We explore the ramifications for identity formation among British migrants, particularly as located in the Melbourne suburb of Frankston, as a situated example of how ethnic and national identities may be expressed. Local contexts can shed new light not only on the ways in which conceptions of “Britishness” are formed and negotiated by migrants in an Australian context, but also on the broader British diaspora in nations shaped by the historical processes and legacies of British imperialism, colonization, and migration.
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ItemWhen good neighbours become good friends: the Australian embrace of its millionth migrant(University of Melbourne, 2004-10)The arrival of Australia's 'millionth' post Second World War migrant in 1955 provided the occasion for a nationally choreographed embrace of a young British woman posed as both culmination and promise for an immigrant nation. This article traces various treatments of this event and explores the transitional national, political and cultural narratives produced and negotiated. It examines the way in which the story of the millionth migrant was taken up as a matter of national interest in Australia and reveals how the British migrants the nation apparently embraced were processed and deployed as salves for anxiety about national identity and in the development of notions of Australian community. It argues that for many British migrants, this process was often fraught: assumed to be willing, welcome and easily assimilated, their identity as migrants was too often smothered by an embrace that ignored broader migratory experiences.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableWhen good neighbours become good friends - The Australian embrace of its millionth migrant(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2004-10)