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Truncated Travel - Life in the Migration Exclusion Zone on Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia (Hardcover, New)
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Truncated Travel - Life in the Migration Exclusion Zone on Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia (Hardcover, New)
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Christmas Island is a small territory of Australia located in the
Indian Ocean. It is home to three main ethnic groups, the smallest
of which are European Australians. Christmas Island is also where
those who arrive "illegally" to seek asylum in Australia are
accommodated. Christmas Island has played a key role in Australian
security, located as it is at the northern extremity of Australian
territory; much closer to Indonesia than to the nation to which it
belongs, and from whose territory it has recently been excised for
migration purposes. As a migration exclusion zone, Christmas is
both within and without of the nation, and has gone from a place
known among nature lovers for its unique red crabs and bird life to
the highly politicised subject of national concern and heated
debate. But what is it like to be at home on Christmas Island? How
do locals make and come to be at home in a place both within and
without of the nation? This anthropological exploration--the very
first one ever undertaken of this strategically important
island--focuses closely on the sensual engagements people have with
place, shows how Christmas Islanders make recourse to the animals,
birds and topographic features of the island to create uniquely
islandic ways of being at home--and ways of creating "others" who
will never belong--under volatile political circumstances. This
original ethnography reveals a complex island society, whose
presence at the very edge of the nation reveals important
information about a place and a group of people new to ethnographic
study. In and through these people and their relationships with
their unique island place, this ethnographic exploration reveals a
nation caught in the grip of intensive national angst about its
borders, its sense of safety, its struggles with multiculturalism,
and its identity in a world of unprecedented migratory movement. As
the first book in the discipline of anthropology to study Christmas
Island in ethnographic terms, Christmas Island is a critical work
for all collections in anthropology and Australian Studies.
"Christmas Island is described by Simone Dennis as 'the last
outpost of the nation', that is, a multicultural microcosm of
contemporary Australia, worried by a search for a national identity
in touch with the past but not limited by it...In Simone Dennis,
Christmas Island has its consummate ethnographer and analyst." -
Professor Nigel Rapport, University of St. Andrews
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