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Despite decades of policy interventions and awareness raising programmes, migration and mobility continue to give rise to tensions and questions of how to live together in a culturally diverse world. Presenting research from a range of settings, 'Managing Cultural Change' takes a new approach to these challenges, re-examining responses to migration and mobility as part of a process of managing wider cultural change.

This article began out of many train journeys from the author's home in Eastern Sydney to various parts of the Western suburbs where she was working with young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. These young people are redefining what it means to be Australian, negotiating their sense of self in the friction of boundary clashes with sites of power such as family, peers, local authorities, and the state itself. There is a realization in their construction of popular culture that even where social constraint is strong, there are still possibilities, still interstitial spaces in the city where they can create their own sense of place and maybe even reinvigorate wider cultural institutions in Australia.

"Complementing established work on Asian cities, social change and transformation in the Asia Pacific and cultural politics in Asia, this work will be of interest to students, researchers and academics in the field of Asian studies, Asian cultural studies, urban geography, urban studies, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies."--Jacket