Arab-Australians Today Citizenship and Belonging

Study of Arab immigration to Australia. Discusses the way early Arabs were received in Australia and examines the diverse lives of groups of people, ranging from entrepreneurs to unemployed youth. Analyses issues such as 'Lebanese gangs' and how assimilation occurs. Includes notes, bibliography and index. Author is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney. Previous titles are 'Home/World' and 'White Nation'.

Ghassan Hage is professor of anthropology and social theory at the University of Melbourne. He has held many international visiting professorships including at Harvard, at The Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, The University of Copenhagen and The American University of Beirut. He works in the areas of comparative nationalism, racism and multiculturalism. He is the author of many publications in this domain; most known among them is White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society (Routledge 2000). He also works in social theory with a particular interest in the work of Pierre Bourdieu.