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.
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).
Well, all the white people in Australia are migrants or children of migrants, whether they want to accept reality or not.
So if white people belong to a land their ancestors migrated to, everyone else is allowed to belong here, too.
This article asks whether migrants feel they belong, not whether other Australian’s feel that migrants belong.
I don’t think I implied that the migrants’ right to belong rested on whether or not other Australians feel like they belong.
I’m stating that they have as much right TO belong as they wish, considering the colonisers feel like they belong.
No worries - not trying to tell you what you said or what you meant to say.
FWIW I absolutely agree with you.
There’s a whole lot of “closing the gate behind you” going on, even with more recent migrants.
Yeah all good. It never hurts to clarify my point some more anyway. And yeah, that closing the gate mentality people have just makes it harder for anyone else looking for a good live to join later on.
Not true, there are white people in Australia who are not migrants.
Would you like to elaborate on that? I think you may have missed the part where I said “migrants or children of migrants”.
Sure, Swedish people here on holiday, for example. They haven’t migrated, but they’re in Australia as tourists.
Yeah, I’m clearly talking about people who live and are citizens of Australia.
Clearly? Whatever champ
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We don’t use that word anymore
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
