Racial Othering and Relational Wellbeing

African Refugee Youth in Australia

Bibliographic Data

ID5935518
AuthorsTebeje Molla (0000-0002-6848-3091, Deakin University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume12
Issue11
Pages609
Publication date2023-11-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/socsci12110609
OpenAlexW4388126852
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited30

Racialised and culturally distinct refugee groups increasingly face hostilities and negative representations in countries of resettlment. The experience of African refugee youth in Australia illustrates this general trend. This paper explores how racial Othering discourse seriously undermines the group's wellbeing. The article concentrates in particular on two aspects of relational wellbeing, the capacity to move in public without fear or shame and the ability to feel a sense of belonging to the place where one lives in. Theoretically, the paper draws together work on wellbeing from a capability approach and relational perspective with interdisciplinary literature on racial Othering. Empirically, the paper demonstrates the pervasive culture of racial Othering through media identifications of African youth with criminality and gang violence and illustrates impacts on young people's wellbeing through data from interviews with African refugee youth. The youth's accounts show how it feels to be a problem and what it means not to belong

Face (sociological concept · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Public relations · Refugee · Shame · Social science · Sociology · Youth studies · Youth work · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Gender Studies · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology

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