TY - JOUR
T1 - Rejecting Ahmed's 'melancholy migrant': South Sudanese Australians in higher education
AU - Harris, Anne Marilla
AU - Marlowe, Jay
AU - Nyuon, Nyadol
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This paper draws on related research studies in two urban centres (Melbourne and Adelaide, Australia) with South Sudanese men and women engaged in varying degrees with higher education. The co-authors examine some gendered differences in the process and demands of resettlement, including within employment and education, and its implications for rapidly changing public versus private gender roles. We argue against essentialising discourses of the ?liberatory? nature of education in the west, versus constructions of ?cultural knowledge? as innate, burdensome, and less useful in western contexts. Drawing on Ahmed s critique of discourses of the ?melancholy migrant? which position western knowledges and gendered practices as progressive and therefore more desirable, the authors interrogate the possibility of multiple forms of knowledge and new migrants ? especially South Sudanese ? as enriched by their previous experiences and knowledges, rather than impoverished by them.
AB - This paper draws on related research studies in two urban centres (Melbourne and Adelaide, Australia) with South Sudanese men and women engaged in varying degrees with higher education. The co-authors examine some gendered differences in the process and demands of resettlement, including within employment and education, and its implications for rapidly changing public versus private gender roles. We argue against essentialising discourses of the ?liberatory? nature of education in the west, versus constructions of ?cultural knowledge? as innate, burdensome, and less useful in western contexts. Drawing on Ahmed s critique of discourses of the ?melancholy migrant? which position western knowledges and gendered practices as progressive and therefore more desirable, the authors interrogate the possibility of multiple forms of knowledge and new migrants ? especially South Sudanese ? as enriched by their previous experiences and knowledges, rather than impoverished by them.
UR - http://goo.gl/iAjfPW
U2 - 10.1080/03075079.2014.881346
DO - 10.1080/03075079.2014.881346
M3 - Article
SN - 0307-5079
VL - 40
SP - 1226
EP - 1238
JO - Studies in Higher Education
JF - Studies in Higher Education
IS - 7
ER -