Bulletin n. 1/2005
December 2005
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Gow Greg
    Rubbing shoulders in the global city. Refugees, citizenship and multicultural alliances in Fairfield, Sydney
    in Ethnicities , Vol. 5 n. 3 ,  2005 ,  386-405
    This article investigates how recently arrived refugees living in Fair-field - the most culturally diverse locality in Sydney - relate to citizenship and experience belonging in a global city context, where different people are compelled to live side by side. Extending Ang’s notion of ‘togetherness in difference’, the discussion explores the formation of horizontal alliances in a multicultural locality. Two small-scale empirical examples demonstrate how locations for citizenship are actualized outside the frame of the nation state, and signal the contours of a progressive multicultural politics, in this case, neighbours collectively dealing with landlord authorities, and young people discussing their encounters with Australia’s immigration regime.
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