Narratives of nationhood: Young Australians’ concepts of nation and their attitudes towards ‘boat people’

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Laughland-Booy, J., Skrbis, Zlatko and Tranter, Bruce. (2017) Narratives of nationhood: Young Australians’ concepts of nation and their attitudes towards ‘boat people’. Journal of Sociology. 53(2), pp. 367 - 381. https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783317704991

Authors	Laughland-Booy, J., Skrbis, Zlatko and Tranter, Bruce
Abstract	In Australia, questions surrounding national identity often feature in public discussions on asylum seekers. Using qualitative interview data collected from 40 participants in an ongoing study of young people in Queensland, we explore the connections between young people’s understandings of Australian national identity and their attitudes towards ‘boat people’. We identify distinct points of interconnection and disjuncture between participants’ notions of being ‘Australian’ and their thoughts on how Australia should respond to asylum seekers. With respect to the asylum seeker debate, we find narratives of Australian nationhood are flexible in interpretation and can serve contrasting and competing functions.
Keywords	asylum seekers; Australia; ‘boat people’; cosmopolitanism; national identity
Year	2017
Journal	Journal of Sociology
Journal citation	53 (2), pp. 367 - 381
Publisher	Sage
ISSN	1440-7833
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783317704991
Scopus EID	2-s2.0-85020852737
Page range	367 - 381
Project	Our Lives Project
Research Group	School of Arts
Grant ID	ARC/DP0557667
	ARC/DP0878781
Place of publication	United Kingdom

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