"Shrinking worlds": Cronulla, Anti-Lebanese racism and Return Visits in the Sydney Hadchiti Lebanese Community

Hyndman-Rizik, Nelia

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"Shrinking worlds": Cronulla, Anti-Lebanese racism and Return Visits in the Sydney Hadchiti Lebanese Community

Date

2008

Authors

Hyndman-Rizik, Nelia

Publisher

University of Western Australia

Abstract

By drawing on observations gained from ethnographic fieldwork in western Sydney with immigrants who are Maronite Catholics from Hadchit, North Lebanon, I demonstrate the pervasiveness of anti-Lebanese racism in Australia and the way it cuts across class,