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Migrants have long been seen as striving for socio-economic mobility in the countries they migrate to. While these aspirations receive scholarly attention, less is known about how their subsequent generations experience belonging, what they mean by it, and how they enact it by trying to be part of the polity. This chapter begins with an overview of the concepts of “belonging” and “active citizenship” as they pertain to second-generation migrants before unpacking why this cohort of migrants merits examination to understand how the enactment of citizenship is evolving in immigrant settler colonial nations like Australia. Two case studies pertaining to civic initiatives in the media and politics in Australia are then presented to exemplify the manifestation of belonging and citizenship. Media Diversity Australia was founded by the children of migrants and has an explicit focus on advancing the media careers of this group. Pathways to Politics and Women for Election have a more generic emphasis on women in politics but have also been influential in facilitating the political careers of second-generation migrant women.
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Khorana, S. (2023). Second-Generation Migrants in the Media and Politics: Enacting Cultural Citizenship, Claiming Belonging. In: Mann, J. (eds) Citizenship in Transnational Perspective. Politics of Citizenship and Migration. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34358-2_12
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