Afghan Hazara Refugees in Australia: Constructing Australian Citizens

Lange, Cheryl M.; Kamalkhani, Zahra; Baldassar, Loretta

doi:10.1080/13504630601163353

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“…To the best of my knowledge, only a few studies have explicitly addressed the issue of avoidance and these suggest that it may be rooted in specific moral economies that burden migrants and refugees with the responsibility to remit (Akuei 2004;Lindley 2009). Lange et al (2007), for instance, describe how Afghani refugees may cut ties with their families at home until they are able to meet their kin obligations to provide the requisite 'care'. While illustrating the complex moral expectations that link relatives across countries, these studies also show the social costs of not meeting them.…”

Section: Revisiting the Literature On Transnational Families And Expementioning

confidence: 99%

When the phone stops ringing: on the meanings and causes of disruptions in communication between Eritrean refugees and their families back home

Belloni

2019

Global Networks

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In recent years, a growing number of studies have highlighted the role of technology in facilitating the circulation of the information and images that underpin migrants' journeys and aspirations. However, less attention has been paid to the social circumstances that obstruct these communication flows. Based on ethnographic work in Italy and Eritrea, in this article I show that, despite the technological possibilities that are available, contacts between Eritrean refugees in Italy and their families back home are often extremely limited. This is not the result of infrastructural under‐development, but of a bundle of social and family expectations that my informants perceive as overwhelming. My respondents in Italy maintained many transnational relationships with friends and acquaintances around the world, but generally not with their parents in Eritrea. While revisiting the literature on the moral economy of transnational families, I show that my informants' attempts to move onwards from Italy emerge from their wish to reconnect with their left‐behind kin. Only by reaching the final destination of their geographical and moral journey can they support their families back home. Only this can give them respect in the eyes of their community and restore transnational communication with their families.

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Section: Revisiting the Literature On Transnational Families And Expementioning

confidence: 99%

When the phone stops ringing: on the meanings and causes of disruptions in communication between Eritrean refugees and their families back home

Belloni

2019

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“…It is also common for volunteers and their programme friends to use the language of “family” to describe their relationships (Lange et al. ; Tilbury ), with many supporters transitioning from understanding themselves as “volunteers” (with all the connotations of work and altruism that this term holds) to seeing themselves as participants in a mutually satisfying two‐way relationship.…”

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Personal care as political activism: Refugee and asylum seeker friendship programmes

Peterie

2018

Aust J Social Issues

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“…Lange et al 2007;Gow 2005), and on forms of post-, supra-and transnational citizenship (c.f. Strumia 2013;Sassen 2003;Soysal 1994).…”

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Mobility and security: the perceived benefits of citizenship for resettled young people from refugee backgrounds

Nunn

McMichael

Gifford

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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Afghan Hazara Refugees in Australia: Constructing Australian Citizens

Cited by 24 publications

References 17 publications

When the phone stops ringing: on the meanings and causes of disruptions in communication between Eritrean refugees and their families back home

When the phone stops ringing: on the meanings and causes of disruptions in communication between Eritrean refugees and their families back home

Personal care as political activism: Refugee and asylum seeker friendship programmes

Mobility and security: the perceived benefits of citizenship for resettled young people from refugee backgrounds

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