Maria Elena Indelicato - Australias New Migrants: International Students’ History of Affective Encounters with the Border

Maria Elena Indelicato is Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at the Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, China.

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International Students History of Affective Encounters with the Border

Maria Elena Indelicato

Maria Elena Indelicato

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Having started working on this project in the form of a doctoral thesis in a country and language other than mine as far back as 2009, I like thinking of this book as the result of a long chain of events, the scale of which varies in quantity and quality, but that ultimately all contributed to the shaping of this book as it stands now. It was indeed a long journey, which involved innumerable encounters of many kinds. The solely textual included: Norma Alcorcn, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Sara Ahmed, Suvendrini Perera, Maria Giannacopoulos, Lauren Berlant, Sue Campbell, Elizabeth Spelman and Ann Alin Cheng, to cite only the most important. I have them to thank for equipping me with the knowledge and language necessary to understand the making of multiple forms of oppression and the excruciating complexity of everyday life. To all of them, I express my deepest gratitude.

Of the same importance were the encounters I made either purposely or accidentally many of them arising from a combination of the two. Knowing nothing about Australia when I first arrived in Sydney, firstly, I want to thank Jackie Jarrett for introducing me to the history of violent dispossession of Aboriginal people while I was working for her on a research project at the Mudgin-Gal centre in Redfern. I would also like to acknowledge the Italian migrants who came to Australia in the aftermath of World War II whose stories I had the privilege of listening to while working on a research project for Francesco Ricatti. The stories about their lives in a time so relevant in terms of race politics in Australia were not only incredibly rich but also instructive to understand my own position as a Southern Italian and temporary migrant. My gratitude goes also to Francesco Ricatti for our many conversations about race and emotions in Australia, but also for the support he gave to me throughout my PhD. Likewise, I would like to thank Victoria Grieves for sharing with me her immense knowledge about the histories of Aboriginal families. Witnessing her retrieve and put together the most disparate array of historical information and theories most definitely improved my archival skills.

Colleagues from the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney were equally important. Among them, I want first to thank Hongwei Bao and Zitong Qiu for walking me out of academic isolation and mentoring me. To them, I owe a great deal of gratitude, as they were the very first to include me in their lives and nurture me both intellectually and emotionally. On a similar note, I would like to acknowledge the influence that my many conversations with Sarah Cefai on her doctoral thesis on the singularity of feelings had on shaping my understanding of how affective subjectivities are bestowed through discourses. Our exchanges on matters related to critical feelings and what we were reading truly helped me to formulate the theoretical framework employed in this study. My gratitude goes also to Jessica Kean for pointing out how the Australian governmental response to the attacks against Indian international students resembled safety discourses concerning women when I presented an earlier version of . Lastly, I would like to thank Remy Low for giving me the thing I needed most to get through the many downs of completing a doctoral thesis while being positioned as a subject at risk in neoliberal academia, which is serenity.