ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the representations of racialised migrant boys and young men in Australian literature from the end of the White Australia Policy to the present. It locates three main narrative strands of representations: ‘refugee/asylum seeker narratives’, ‘celebratory multicultural narratives’ and ‘post-assimilationist narratives’. While this is not an exhaustive list of narrative tropes, these three strands are representative of the stories collected in a database for this research, and importantly index changing Australian imaginings of racialised migrant boys and young men. It is the first mapping study of Australian literary representations of racialised migrant boys.
