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Are There any Poor People Here?': Immigrants, Aborigines, and Multicultural Perceptions
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posted on 2023-05-26, 07:50 authored by Rolls, MThis overview paper highlights the urgent need for research in an area of national significance. The often disputatious debate vis-‚àö‚Ć-vis the history and legacy of contact and conflict between colonists, settlers and Aborigines is for the most part framed in ways that serve to exclude a significant proportion of Australian's post World War II non-Anglo immigrant population. Terms characteristic of the debate‚ÄövÑvÆsuch as black/white, coloniser/colonised, Anglo/Aborigine, invader/invaded‚ÄövÑvÆare not inclusive of more recent immigrants, who for a range of disparate reasons fall outside the delimiters of these terms. Addressing Aboriginal disadvantage, achieving proposed constitutional reform, and establishing the foundations upon which mutual understandings and empathy can be built necessitates a more inclusive approach and language than that taken to date. In order to progress beyond the bluff binaries and stagnation of the dominant discourse, a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between all cross sections of the immigrant population and Aboriginal affairs is required. This paper sketches this need.
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Journal of the European Association of Studies on AustraliaVolume
5Article number
1Number
1Pagination
36 -44ISSN
2013-6897Publisher
European Association of Studies on AustraliaPublication status
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