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Do migrants feel they belong in Australia? The answer is complicated

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨okwithmydecay@leminal.space⁩ to ⁨australia@aussie.zone⁩

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/do-new-migrants-feel-they-belong-to-australia-the-answer-is-complicated-study-shows/x8hre58vx

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  • Mantzy81@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As a migrant, I probably feel more at home here than I did in my “home” country as I’m not exactly white either. Less racist (or at least more open racism rather than the backstabbing kind and nobody asks me “where are you from” here - which always has connotations)

    As almost everyone here is a migrant, the whole “where are you from” falls on its head pretty quick - which is also why One Nation and those who are anti-immigrant just come across as fuckwits.

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  • Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Scanlon Foundation Research Institute interviewed more than 8,000 migrants from the fastest-growing communities — China, India, Pakistan, Nepal, the Philippines and Iraq — to examine how migrants experience belonging in Australia.

    It would be interesting to see the breakdown by community. Some of those are definitely more established and less targeted and we know that migrant communities tend to be accepted by White Australian society over time, eventually adopting similar discriminatory attitudes towards more recent waves of migrants (see Southern European migrants).

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  • hanrahan@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As an Australian born in Australia, to parents born in Australia, I don’t belong. This hate filled anti - science, greed filled country isn’t a place I want to be, nor do i feel any allegiance to. I so wish I could claim EU citizenship via a grandparent and move there but they too were born in Australia

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    • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, I kinda feel the same about Germany nowadays; it’s always very vocal minorities (nazis and the like) ruining it for everyone else. Only thing is that there are probably more of those those people in any European country than there are in Australia.

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