Experience and Representation

Keith Jacobs is Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania, Australia

'If you are thinking about questions such as: "How is migration changing the world?", "Why are migrants linked to fear?", "What is the meaning of home?" and "How is migrant identity represented in contemporary literature and film?", then you should read this fabulously lucid, comprehensive and even-handed book.' Nikos Papastergiadis, University of Melbourne, Australia 'In this book Keith Jacobs takes aim, with an inventive sociological imagination, at the big questions of migration, identity and belonging in contemporary Australia. The result is a most articulate and discriminate sociological critique of migration in conditions of advanced globalisation.' Anthony Elliott, Flinders University, Australia and Open University, UK '... Keith Jacobs produces a fantastic interdisciplinary reconfiguration of the stories of migration. Drawing on the Australian experience the book speaks to a much wider audience, bringing together sociological, political economical, psychoanalytic and cultural geographical insights to produce a fascinating new take on the subjectivities of people that move and an understanding of the migration process.' Michael Keith, University of Oxford, UK '... by drawing on different disciplinary orientations, issues and fields - it allows the reader to reach a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of migratory experiences and representations of migrants in Australia and beyond. This is a major advantage of the book. Another advantage is that it shows, mostly indirectly, how migratory experiences, representations of migrants and cultural constructions of belonging and nationhood, are linked to real unequal relations of power and domination. In this way Jacobs' work transcends the specific context of which is about and has wider implications and repercussions... All in all, the book makes a very good read. It is very informative and at times illuminating and is characterised by a balance between theoretical insights and empirical examples an

• Series Editor’s Preface; Preface; Part I Understanding Migration; Chapter 1 Introduction: Making Sense of Australian Migration; Chapter 2 Migration, Identity and the Cultural Turn; Part II Migration and Urban Encounters; Chapter 3 Migrant Encounters in Ethnic Neighbourhoods; Chapter 4 The Politics of Australian Multiculturalism: An Exploration of the Sites of Contestation and Debate; Chapter 5 Media Portrayals of Migrants; Part III Contemporary Australian Identities; Chapter 6 Australian Identities; Chapter 7 Cultural Expressions of Belonging: Recent Australian Literature; Chapter 8 Migrant Cinema in Australia; Chapter 9 The Enactment, Commodification and Consumption of Transnational Practices; Chapter 10 Conclusion: The Shifting Boundaries of Migration;