Intersectional Lives

Intersectional Lives explores the lives of contemporary Chinese Australian women and how their everyday experiences have played out in diverse and uneven ways across time and place.

Alanna Kamp is Lecturer in Geography and Urban Studies at Western Sydney University. Her research contributions lie in the areas of Australian multiculturalism and cultural diversity, experiences of migration and migrant settlement, racism, national identity and intersectional experiences of belonging/exclusion. She has published pioneering and award-winning work on Chinese Australian women in White Australia.

1.Introduction. 2.Intersectionality and Postcolonial Feminist Geography as a Way of Inclusion. 3.Presence, Diversity and Mobility. 4.Domestic Roles and the Family Economy. 5.Cultural Maintenance in Homes and Families. 6.Interactions and Identity. 7.Conclusions and Looking Forward