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An essential contribution to the current mapping of migration studies, with a focus on Australian scholarship in its international context, this collection will be of interest to undergraduates and postgraduates interested in fields such as Sociology, Cultural Studies, Geography and Politics.

This volume provides a nuanced understanding of the ways in which contemporary contexts of global economies, changes in public policies, tracking in education, health disparities, parenting practices and changes in family structure shape the present and future lived experiences of African-American families.

Black Studies is a hugely important, and yet undervalued, academic field of enquiry that is marked by its disciplinary absence and omission from academic curricula in Britain. Blackness in Britain attends to and grapples with the absence of Black Studies in Britain and the parallel crisis of Black marginality in British society. Split into five parts, it examines: Black studies and the challenge of the Black British intellectual; revolution, resistance and state violence; Blackness and belonging; exclusion and inequality in education; and experiences of Black women and the gendering of Blackness in Britain.

This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for understanding the constitution of identity in general and black social identity in particular, without reverting to either a social or racial deterministic view of identity construction.

Identifies and investigates the variety of practices that make up the complex phenomena of racism and xenophobia. In systematically analyzing these problems, the author contributes to a deeper understanding of the forces underlying xenophobia and racism and to generating more effective anti-racial and integrative policy making.