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

ISBN-13: 9781433189487 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 194 str.

Jatinder Mann; Pavithra Jayawardena

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"The study is an in-depth exploration into what makes 'citizenship' meaningful to Sinhalese and Tamil Sri Lankans living in Australia and New Zealand. Dr. Pavithra Jayawardena presents a rich body of ethnographic material to argue that immigrant citizenship is a specific human condition which cannot be stereotyped as it often happens to immigrant communities from the global South to the global North. Her analysis is built on a study of the phenomenology of immigrant experience in relationship in a transnational space. It draws the reader's attention to the need for a nuanced and empathic understanding of the issue of immigrants' longing for citizenship in a host country. This is a work that certainly helps formulate better government policy towards immigrant populations in host countries. Immigrants' Citizenship Perceptions: Sri Lankans in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand is a pioneering contribution to the South Asian scholarship in the field of South Asian studies." -Jayadeva Uyangoda, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - Introduction - Search for Immigrants' Citizenship Perceptions - Sri Lankan Migration: An Overview - Citizenship: Traditional and Transnational Perspectives - Conceptual Framework: Perceiving Citizenship as a Legal Tool or a Sense of Belonging - Research Methods: Exploring and Analysing the Citizenship Perceptions - Citizenship for a Passport: Sinhalese Immigrants' Host Citizenship Views - Citizenship for Security: Tamils' Host Citizenship Views - From Instrumental Satisfaction to Patriotic Gratitude: Sri Lankan Immigrants' Thin Patriotism Towards Host Citizenship - From Thin to Thick Patriotism: Sri Lankan Immigrants' Sense of Belonging as Host Citizens - Becoming (Or Not) a Sri Lankan Dual Citizen - Conclusion - Appendix A: List of Participants - List of References.

O autorze

Pavithra Jayawardena is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka. She completed her Ph.D. in Political Science from Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand in 2020.