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Young Migrant Identities Sherene Idriss

Young Migrant Identities By Sherene Idriss

Young Migrant Identities by Sherene Idriss


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This book examines the vocational aspirations and working experiences of young Arab-Australian men within highly racialised and hierarchical creative industries, as well as how these are perceived as 'risky' career ambitions within migrant communities.

Young Migrant Identities Summary

Young Migrant Identities: Creativity and Masculinity by Sherene Idriss

In this day and age, much has been discussed as to what it means 'to be an Arab'. However, this enlightening volume seeks instead to invite us deeper into young Arab-Australian men's lives as we explore their vocational aspirations and working experiences within highly racialised and hierarchical industries.

Young Migrant Identities is an in-depth exploration into the lives of Arab-Australian young men living in Western Sydney with creative career aspirations. Indeed, not only does Idriss explore how these men develop interests in fields such as music, filmmaking, and design, but she also examines the multilinear routes that they take to turn these interests into vocational identities. However, in the local migrant communities in which these young men live, creative identities are seen to compromise individual and familial prospects for social mobility, and artistic interests tend to go unsupported. Thus, this book also strives to offer new insights about how notions of gender, ethnicity, and social class are experienced because of these young men's 'risky' career ambitions.

A timely volume, Young Migrant Identities draws together a range of theoretical issues and debates, engaging with sociological approaches to race and social class, creative and cultural economies, and studies on youth. It will particularly appeal to post-graduate students and post-doctoral researchers interested in fields such as Youth Studies, Ethnicity Studies, Cultural Economy, and Migration Studies.

Young Migrant Identities Reviews

This timely, rich study explores the complex journeys of young Arab-Australian men who pursue creative vocational aspirations as they juggle the competing forces of peers, family and community. Using a life-history narrative analysis approach the book offers new insights into the enduring significance of class, place, gender and ethnicity. In imagining their vocational futures they seek to belong to a broader creative community, building identities that go beyond shared migrant experience.

Professor Johanna Wyn, Director of the Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia

About Sherene Idriss

Sherene Idriss is an Adjunct Fellow at the School of Social Sciences and Psychology (Religion and Society Research Cluster), Western Sydney University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Shu Hal Ayb!: The moral implications of creative passions in Arab-Australian families

Nike TNs and Dry Fit: The importance of style among creative aspirants

Being 'weird' is how you get ahead

Making money out of art: Parlaying the passion into a career

Politicised ethnic performativities

Conclusion: Retrospective and future selves

Additional information

NLS9780367352929
9780367352929
0367352923
Young Migrant Identities: Creativity and Masculinity by Sherene Idriss
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2019-05-21
162
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