Maria Elena Indelicato is Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at the Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, China.

"Through her close readings of knowledge produced about international student emotions in government and scholarly literatures, and of affective responses to international students among the Australian public, Indelicato convincingly argues that the students are framed in ways that seek the maintenance of Australia’s moral and political authority over time and across shifting economic and geopolitical contexts." - Sharon Stein, Educational Studies"In placing colonialism and its (dis)continuitity at the heart of her affective discussion of racism, Indelicato has made an important contribution to the body of critical postcolonial studies." - Ivana Prazic, Postcolonial Interventions

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Where I Come From: Emotions, Race and the Border 1. Becoming ‘Illegal’: Compassion, Multicultural Love and Resentment 2. Failing to Be(come) ‘Ideal’: Multiculturalism, Whiteness and the Politics of Resentment 3. Think Before You Travel: Urban Violence, Risk Management and the Territorialisation of the Australian Public Space 4. ‘Is Australia Racist?’: Interpretive Denial and the Politics of Anger 5. Feeling like an International Student: Racial Grief, Compassion and National Sentimentality Conclusion: Fantasies of Multiculturalism: Whiteness, Emotions and the Border Index

Maria Elena Indelicato is Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at the Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, China.

"Through her close readings of knowledge produced about international student emotions in government and scholarly literatures, and of affective responses to international students among the Australian public, Indelicato convincingly argues that the students are framed in ways that seek the maintenance of Australia’s moral and political authority over time and across shifting economic and geopolitical contexts." - Sharon Stein, Educational Studies"In placing colonialism and its (dis)continuitity at the heart of her affective discussion of racism, Indelicato has made an important contribution to the body of critical postcolonial studies." - Ivana Prazic, Postcolonial Interventions

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Where I Come From: Emotions, Race and the Border 1. Becoming ‘Illegal’: Compassion, Multicultural Love and Resentment 2. Failing to Be(come) ‘Ideal’: Multiculturalism, Whiteness and the Politics of Resentment 3. Think Before You Travel: Urban Violence, Risk Management and the Territorialisation of the Australian Public Space 4. ‘Is Australia Racist?’: Interpretive Denial and the Politics of Anger 5. Feeling like an International Student: Racial Grief, Compassion and National Sentimentality Conclusion: Fantasies of Multiculturalism: Whiteness, Emotions and the Border Index

Maria Elena Indelicato is Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at the Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, China.

"Through her close readings of knowledge produced about international student emotions in government and scholarly literatures, and of affective responses to international students among the Australian public, Indelicato convincingly argues that the students are framed in ways that seek the maintenance of Australia’s moral and political authority over time and across shifting economic and geopolitical contexts." - Sharon Stein, Educational Studies"In placing colonialism and its (dis)continuitity at the heart of her affective discussion of racism, Indelicato has made an important contribution to the body of critical postcolonial studies." - Ivana Prazic, Postcolonial Interventions

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Where I Come From: Emotions, Race and the Border 1. Becoming ‘Illegal’: Compassion, Multicultural Love and Resentment 2. Failing to Be(come) ‘Ideal’: Multiculturalism, Whiteness and the Politics of Resentment 3. Think Before You Travel: Urban Violence, Risk Management and the Territorialisation of the Australian Public Space 4. ‘Is Australia Racist?’: Interpretive Denial and the Politics of Anger 5. Feeling like an International Student: Racial Grief, Compassion and National Sentimentality Conclusion: Fantasies of Multiculturalism: Whiteness, Emotions and the Border Index