Perceptions of Australian Cultural Identity among Asian Australians

Clark, Juliet

doi:10.1002/j.1839-4655.2007.tb00060.x

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“…For instance, in previous research I have shown that the social background factors of class (education and profession) and generation are likely to affect whether AsianAustralians support an ethnic citizenship (Clark 2007). In this research, I showed that the social background factors of education, profession and generation represented significant effects on views towards the ethnic conception of citizenship.…”

Section: The Bases Of Citizenship and National Identitymentioning

confidence: 77%

“…In this research, I showed that the social background factors of education, profession and generation represented significant effects on views towards the ethnic conception of citizenship. For instance, the non-university educated, non-professional and secondgeneration Asian-Australians were more likely to ascribe importance to an ethnic dimension of citizenship as compared to the highly educated, professional and firstgeneration Asian-Australians (Clark 2007). This might be due to greater pressures to assimilate to cultural conceptions of national citizenship among the nonuniversity-educated and non-professionals.…”

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confidence: 95%

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Australian Public Opinion on Citizenship and Transnational Ties in Asia

Clark¹

2008

Australian Geographer

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At a time of increasing national security, this article explores the ways in which migrant communities from Asia feel a sense of attachment to exclusive and inclusive forms of national citizenship while at the same time maintaining transnational links. Drawing on data from the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (2003), the study utilises a quantitative methodology. The strength of this methodological approach lies in its capacity to describe the importance of different categories in shaping public opinion on citizenship and transnational connections in Asia. This study compares the views of AsianAustralians with the rest of the Australian population.

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Section: The Bases Of Citizenship and National Identitymentioning

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Australian Public Opinion on Citizenship and Transnational Ties in Asia

Clark¹

2008

Australian Geographer

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“…Culturally orientated sociologists in the field of nations and nationalism studies have also used survey data to point to the danger of generalizing about the decline in western nationalism, highlighting the substantial diversity in levels of patriotism and types of patriotic national identification found between countries, stressing the need to understand nationalism in relation to its local cultural context as much as a reflection of global forces (Fenton, 2007;Kumar, 2010). Similarly, we argue that the survey research in this article has the potential to provide insights into the distribution of cultural sentiment in the unique cultural context of Australia (Clark, 2007;Smith and Phillips, 2006)…”

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War memory, national attachment and generational identity in Australia

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Aarons²

2016

Journal of Sociology

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In this article we use a module from the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes 2007 to analyse how particular events in history resonate with Australians. We emphasize three significant findings: (1) evidence of a strong level of attachment to the world wars and an equivalent significance given to the terrorist events of 9/11 and the 2002 Bali bombings, with far less importance given to other event types; (2) a surprisingly weak correlation between the experience of events in adolescence and the assigning of historical significance; (3) indication that both closeness to the nation and a strong sense of worldliness is important in explaining attachment to the past. Overall the data challenge recent theories of postmodern memory and a range of survey results that supports Mannheim's cohort theory. Instead, we point to the resilience of historical events to remain culturally significant, particularly through the emergence of a cosmopolitan collective memory.

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“…Scholars have likewise too often taken “Asian Australian” as the unit of analysis when interrogating migrants’ views on a range of subjects, including nationhood, Australian cultural identity or mental health norms (see, e.g. Clark, 2007, 2009; Hamid et al , 2009). This conflates the attitudes of individuals from a wide range of ethnic and national-political backgrounds, with serious implications for the validity of any generalisations drawn from such analyses.…”

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A spatial and organisational analysis of Asian panethnic association in Perth, Western Australia

Stevens

2018

IJSSP

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Purpose “Asian” is an aggregating descriptive term commonly used in Australian media, politics and everyday speech to describe people of diverse backgrounds. The purpose of this paper is to question the extent to which “Asian” Australian residents living in Perth, Western Australia demonstrate spatial or organisational panethnic association. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyses quantitative population data from the 2011 Census using GIS to visualise the spatial residential distribution of individuals born in Asian countries and individuals with Chinese ancestry within the Perth metropolitan area. The paper further uses qualitative data drawn from fieldwork conducted in Perth to consider evidence of organisational panethnic association. Findings For first generation migrants there is currently little spatial or organisation evidence of “Asian” panethnic association in Perth. Migrants from different ethno-national backgrounds exhibit very different residential patterns. Incipient ethnoburbs are developing that appear to be based on ethnicity rather than panethnicity. Migrant organisation in Perth is likewise arranged primarily on the basis of ethnicity although some panethnic work is observed. Research limitations/implications Findings indicate trends towards ethnic residential segregation. Further longitudinal research could expand upon these findings. Qualitative research could determine causes of segregation and implications of (pan)ethnic identities, and explore how individuals from Asian countries respond to the dominant linguistic aggregation of “Asians”. Originality/value This paper offers an original analysis of a common frame of reference that has received little critical attention in the Australian context. It applies the framework of Asian panethnicity developed in the USA and finds it wanting, highlighting an inconsistency between the racialised language used in Australia to describe migrants from Asia and the ways these migrants associate.

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Perceptions of Australian Cultural Identity among Asian Australians

Cited by 15 publications

References 37 publications

Australian Public Opinion on Citizenship and Transnational Ties in Asia

Australian Public Opinion on Citizenship and Transnational Ties in Asia

War memory, national attachment and generational identity in Australia

A spatial and organisational analysis of Asian panethnic association in Perth, Western Australia

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