ABSTRACT
This chapter stems from a conversation that ensued after a fieldwork interview that conducted in the city of Adelaide, Australia, in 2011. The research project focused on identity and belonging among skilled 'black' African migrants in Australia with the specific aim of investigating and understanding the experiences of this group that is gradually becoming a visible part of the Australian sociocultural and economic landscape. Skilled black continental African migrants in Australia group claims to racial insiderness, therefore, grounded in the recognition of continental black Africans as a distinct identifiable group in Australia. According to Gallagher, 'assumptions about access to others because of one's race are often perceived as a methodological given'. Other markers such as gender, age, ethnicity and profession that affect insider positionality but were of hardly any consequence. If insiders, as Merton notes, are 'simply' members of specified groups and collectivities or occupants of specified social statuses whereas outsiders are the nonmembers.
