Claiming Belonging: Migrant Solidarities through Arts and Media
This webinar is the seventh in the Australian Centre's 2024 Critical Public Conversations series.
Join Scientia Associate Professor Sukhmani Khoranaas she explores how 'new second generation' migrants are forging solidarities with First Nations through Arts and Media.
In Australia, young second-generation migrants are claiming belonging and forging solidarity differently. Participation in the digitised, global nature of youth cultures now offers possibilities and challenges for the kinds of aspirations this new second generation has in their immediate contexts. Shaping the steps they are willing to take to stake their claim, rather than waiting to be granted permission.
This webinar examines case studies of several second generation-migrant led Australian initiatives in the Arts and Media, paying particular attention to their campaigns for Indigenous and migrant visibility in the mainstream - including during the ‘Voice to Parliament’ Referendum in 2023. Through these examples, it highlights a kind of transversal solidarity that decentres whiteness and uses a range of collaborative tools to work with shared struggles as well as different histories.
PRESENTER
Sukhmani Khorana is a Scientia Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales (Australia). She is the external co-lead of the ‘Migration, Im/mobility and Belonging’ research theme at Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney. She was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the journal, ‘Food, Culture and Society’ in 2023.
Sukhmani has published extensively on media diversity, food in multicultural contexts, and the politics of empathy and belonging. She is the author of Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect for Agency (2023) and The Tastes and Politics of Inter-Cultural Food in Australia (2018). She has a forthcoming co-authored book, Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New History (2025).
The presenter has granted permission for this recording to be used for personal viewing and educational purposes.