ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in this book. The book focuses on migrant interactions in the context of the city and daily life. It considers the conflicts that surround the politics of multiculturalism and the way that it has become a symbolic focus of wider ideological conflicts raging across a number of fronts within Australian society. This book explores some of the most recent controversies that have impacted upon Australia's immigration policy, in particular the political developments that have occurred since 9/11 and the Tampa incident in December of that year. It also explores how issues relating to migrant identity and belonging are represented in literary fiction and cinema. The book examines the ways in which cultural forms provide space where the complex feelings that are evoked in course of migration can be played out. This book presents concepts of transnationalism and other postcolonial terms to provide theoretical and empirical focus on material practices of migration.
