ABSTRACT
In 2014, there were 225,110 Philippine-born persons living in Australia. Despite being fifth largest overseas-born group in the country, there is still little comprehensive research on Filipino migrants in the extensive scholarly study of immigrant settlement to Australia. The country's history is marked by British colonisation of the Indigenous population, invading in 1778, and setting out to eradicate the original inhabitants of the land. But that racism is now seen as something of an anomaly is a trend apparent in other Western multicultural democracies. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book is to re-locate how 'race' operates in everyday encounters of racism and examine the manner in which it is constructed as a category of difference in lived contexts. The notion of 'everyday racism' also has a particular definition, not merely referring to interpersonal encounters of racism but denoting racism at intersection of micro and macro social fields.
