ABSTRACT
As mobile academics, we spend a lot of time in airports and are struck by the increasing numbers of visibly mixed families in airport lounges. These mobile, intercultural, interracial families are one evidence of processes of globalisation that have increased human mobility, bringing together peoples of different cultural and racial backgrounds. This mobility, and the intimate mixing that arises from it, has generated the phenomenon of ‘mixed race’ as a fruitful area of research (Daniel et al., 2014). This is not to suggest that mixing does not have a long history, perhaps particularly in the Australo-Pacific region, where colonisation and immigration have resulted in significant opportunities for mixing over the last few centuries; simply that it is becoming more obvious, and indeed, a growing source of identification.
