ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores how processes of racialisation, socio-economic disadvantage, and local, familial dynamics, and traditions shape the ways that young Arab-Australian men articulate their vocational aspirations. It shows that there is much at stake when ethnic minority youth choose to invest their time, energy, and resources into cultivating a creative identity. The book suggests that Arab-Australian young men from Bankstown articulate creativity and creative identities as a vehicle to escape the local community, to transcend the limiting career templates and gender constructions available to them. It explores some narratives that are a distinctive take on working in creative industries because they impress upon the various ways that communal dynamics and growing up in predominantly working-class pockets of Western Sydney have lasting effects for the formations of vocational identities within youth and early adulthood.
