Christina Ho
I research migration, cultural diversity and education in Australia. My current projects are on the impacts of gentrification on local schools, the education cultures of Asian- and Anglo-Australians, and inter-cultural relations among residents of high density housing.
I am the author of Migration and Gender Identity: Chinese Women's Experiences of Work, Family and Identity in Australia (2008) and co-editor of Beyond the Hijab Debates: New Conversations on Gender, Race and Religion (2009), and For Those Who've Come Across the Seas: Australian Multicultural Theory, Policy and Practice (2013).
I am the author of Migration and Gender Identity: Chinese Women's Experiences of Work, Family and Identity in Australia (2008) and co-editor of Beyond the Hijab Debates: New Conversations on Gender, Race and Religion (2009), and For Those Who've Come Across the Seas: Australian Multicultural Theory, Policy and Practice (2013).
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Professor Charles Husband
Centre for Applied Social Research
University of Bradford, UK
An exhilarating intervention in the global ‘multiculturalism has failed’ debates, this well-researched and passionately argued volume details how people actually live diversity in their everyday existence, and the ways in which everyday multiculturalism might profitably inform more nuanced policies.
Professor Sneja Gunew
Professor of English & Women’s Studies
University of British Columbia, Canada
Australia’s highly successful absorption and integration of so many people of differing cultural backgrounds owes much to the open, dispassionate discussion with which our public debate has been informed. This volume is an extremely fine example of the careful, cross-disciplinary scholarship which has helped Australia thus far to avoid the excesses elsewhere of opposition to, and backlashes against, a growing population diversity.
Professor John Nieuwenhuysen AM
Emeritus Professor, Monash University
Honorary Professorial Fellow,
University of Melbourne
This collection provides a space for in-depth analyses on the politics of gender, race and religion. As well as critical reflections on images and experiences of Muslim women, chapters also explore the relationships between gender, violence and protection, and offer innovative possibilities for intellectual and practical understandings at the intersection of gender, race and religion.
Papers by Christina Ho
everyday life, including schools, workplaces and neighbourhoods. This paper focuses on schools in particular, to show that everyday multiculturalism is highly uneven in its distribution, and that significant cultural polarisation is occurring within Sydney’s
secondary schools. However, it reiterates the importance of schools as potential micropublics, as they are ideal sites for fostering a respect for the presence of Others, which can coexist with tension and conflict.
narrative disguises a much more complex reality, in which migrants’ employment outcomes are shaped by broader social and cultural factors, as well as just economic ones. In particular, it shows that men and women typically experience migration differently, and the challenges of re-negotiating work and care in a new setting often lead to a ‘feminisation’ of women’s roles, as they find themselves taking up more traditional gender roles as wives and mothers. Using in-depth interviews with Chinese women and survey data from the Australian government, I show that, in Australia, migrant women often experience downward occupational mobility and a re-orientation away from paid work
and towards the domestic sphere.
Professor Charles Husband
Centre for Applied Social Research
University of Bradford, UK
An exhilarating intervention in the global ‘multiculturalism has failed’ debates, this well-researched and passionately argued volume details how people actually live diversity in their everyday existence, and the ways in which everyday multiculturalism might profitably inform more nuanced policies.
Professor Sneja Gunew
Professor of English & Women’s Studies
University of British Columbia, Canada
Australia’s highly successful absorption and integration of so many people of differing cultural backgrounds owes much to the open, dispassionate discussion with which our public debate has been informed. This volume is an extremely fine example of the careful, cross-disciplinary scholarship which has helped Australia thus far to avoid the excesses elsewhere of opposition to, and backlashes against, a growing population diversity.
Professor John Nieuwenhuysen AM
Emeritus Professor, Monash University
Honorary Professorial Fellow,
University of Melbourne
This collection provides a space for in-depth analyses on the politics of gender, race and religion. As well as critical reflections on images and experiences of Muslim women, chapters also explore the relationships between gender, violence and protection, and offer innovative possibilities for intellectual and practical understandings at the intersection of gender, race and religion.
everyday life, including schools, workplaces and neighbourhoods. This paper focuses on schools in particular, to show that everyday multiculturalism is highly uneven in its distribution, and that significant cultural polarisation is occurring within Sydney’s
secondary schools. However, it reiterates the importance of schools as potential micropublics, as they are ideal sites for fostering a respect for the presence of Others, which can coexist with tension and conflict.
narrative disguises a much more complex reality, in which migrants’ employment outcomes are shaped by broader social and cultural factors, as well as just economic ones. In particular, it shows that men and women typically experience migration differently, and the challenges of re-negotiating work and care in a new setting often lead to a ‘feminisation’ of women’s roles, as they find themselves taking up more traditional gender roles as wives and mothers. Using in-depth interviews with Chinese women and survey data from the Australian government, I show that, in Australia, migrant women often experience downward occupational mobility and a re-orientation away from paid work
and towards the domestic sphere.