Author: Ait Idir Lahcen, Faculty of Letters, Mohammedia, Hassan II University, Morocco
Email: Lahcen.aitidir@univh2c.ma
Published: December 30, 2023
https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.8.2.05
Citation: Lahcen, A. I. (2023). “Otherized” Migrants in Contemporary Australia: Reflections from Michael Ahmad’s The Tribe (2014), 8(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.8.2.05
Abstract
This article provides a close reading of Michael Mohamed Ahmad’s The Tribe (2014), a Lebanese-Australian novel, which proffers perspectives on the experiences of racialized and ethnicized communities, namely Arab-Australian Muslims, who are subjected to anti-Arab racism and discrimination. The Tribe invokes different images of hostility against immigrants and their children in Australia. It studies these forms of racism and discrimination against immigrants of the Lebanese background in public spaces. Related, the question of linguistic terrorism is also discussed. This racism prompts us to ask questions about any Australian “multicultural approach”.
Keywords
Lebanese immigrants, Australia, othering, racism, linguistic terrorism multiculturalism