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Diversity Journal, Volume 11, Issue 3 now available

Published on February 2, 2012 in Journal and Newsletter. 0 Comments

diversity_frontThe third issue of Volume 11 of The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations has been published.

Volume 11, Issue 3 contains:

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Diversity Journal: Recently Published

Published on January 13, 2012 in Journal. 0 Comments

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The latest issue of The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations includes:

Diversity Journal, Volume 11, Issue 2 now available

Published on January 9, 2012 in Journal and Newsletter. 0 Comments

diversity_frontThe second issue of Volume 11 of The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations has been published.

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Diversity Journal: Recently Published

Published on December 26, 2011 in Journal. 0 Comments

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The latest issue of The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations includes:

Diversity Journal, Volume 11, Issue 1 now available

Published on December 15, 2011 in Journal and Newsletter. 0 Comments

diversity_frontThe first issue of Volume 11 of The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations has been published.

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Call for Book Reviewers

Published on October 28, 2011 in Book and Newsletter. 0 Comments Tags: .

Common Ground Publishing is seeking distinguished peer reviewers to evaluate book manuscripts submitted to the On Diversity Book Series.

As part of our commitment to intellectual excellence and a rigorous review process, Common Ground sends book manuscripts that have received initial editorial approval to peer reviewers to further evaluate and provide constructive feedback. The comments and guidance that these reviewers supply is invaluable to our authors and an essential part of the publication process.

Common Ground recognizes the important role of referees by acknowledging book reviewers as members of the On Diversity Book Series Editorial Review Board for a period of at least one year. The list of members of the Editorial Review Board will be posted on our website. In addition, Common Ground also offers a US$200 voucher for each completed review which meets the standards set out by the Commissioning Editor at the commencement of assignment. Vouchers may be used in the Common Ground Bookstore or for registration at one of our international conferences.

If you would like to referee book manuscripts submitted to On Diversity,  please email:

  1. a brief description of your professional credentials
  2. a list of your areas of interest and expertise
  3. a copy of your CV with current contact details

If we feel you are qualified and we require refereeing for manuscripts within your purview, we will contact you.

Migrant Women Act

Published on October 20, 2011 in Book, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Migrant Women Act by Olga Bursian is available as part of the On Diversity series.

Migrant Women Act shows the creativity and ingenuity of migrant women in shaping their own destinies during resettlement. It also shows the vital role of public services in enabling these competencies to flower. Olga Bursian documents the stories of thirty migrant women from the former USSR, Vietnam, Lebanon, the Philippines and the Horn of Africa, by exploring their socialisation into non-Western understandings of the human being, of normal society and what is worth doing in life. The women speak about how they acted through displacement and resettlement overturning popular stereotypes about their cultures. The stories reveal their generosity, resilience and audacity in the face of multiple layers of unequal social relations and negative representations. The book includes a review of the role of public services in successful resettlement, even for the most resilient women. Open entitlement to these services for new citizens was the hallmark of multiculturalism prior to the reversals begun by the Howard Government in the mid 1990s. Olga Bursian uses wide ranging sources to back a rigorous policy and program analysis, pitched at professionals and decision makers. She has lived and worked across diverse cultures and was inspired to document the unbounded resilience of migrant women.

Intercultural Relations in a Global World

Published on October 19, 2011 in Book and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Intercultural Relations in a Global World edited by Michele Lobo, Vince Marotta and Nicole Oke is available as part of the On Diversity series.

CONTENTS

  1. Intercultural Relations in a Global and Transnational World
    Michele Lobo, Vince Marotta and Nicole Oke

    Part I : Immigration, multiculturalism and nationalism

  2. Mismanaging Multiculturalism: The Official English Movement in the United States
    Rachel Stevens
  3. Comparing perceptions of immigrants and those of the host society: Intercultural views and relations in Salzburg, Austria
    Wolfgang Aschauer
  4. Paki on-a-bike:Negotiating the racialised terrains of Britain and Australia
    Les Morgan
  5. The role of the Holocaust in the Australian-Jewish post-migration community
    Michele Langfield and Pam Maclean
  6. Stories, Silence and Strategies: (Re)Articulation of Femininities in a Chinese Indonesian Family
    Gloria ArliniPart II : Transnationalism and transnational identities
  7. Towards a common model of expatriate voting rights? The case of Italian, Greek and Irish nationals abroad
    Bruno Mascitelli and Simone Battiston
  8. Intergenerational Transnationalism in the case of Japanese Women
    Atsushi Takeda
  9. Performing foreigners: Attributed and appropriated roles and identities of Westerners teaching English in Shanghai
    Phiona Stanley
  10. Online Communities as a Medium for Social Capital and Social Integration: The Case of Malaysia
    Wan Munira Wan Jaafar and Nabila Jaber

    Part III : Interculturalism and cross-cultural contact

  11. The idea of the in-between subject in social and cultural thought
    Vince Marotta
  12. Indigenized Representations in Glocalized Spaces
    Andrzej Antoszek
  13. From Aphasia to a Celebration in Language: Diasporic writers opening up dialogue between and within cultures
    Anna Dimitriou

Migrant Women Act

Published on September 26, 2011 in Book and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Migrant Women Act by Olga Bursian is available as part of the On Diversity series.

Migrant Women Act shows the creativity and ingenuity of migrant women in shaping their own destinies during resettlement. It also shows the vital role of public services in enabling these competencies to flower. Olga Bursian documents the stories of thirty migrant women from the former USSR, Vietnam, Lebanon, the Philippines and the Horn of Africa, by exploring their socialisation into non-Western understandings of the human being, of normal society and what is worth doing in life. The women speak about how they acted through displacement and resettlement overturning popular stereotypes about their cultures. The stories reveal their generosity, resilience and audacity in the face of multiple layers of unequal social relations and negative representations. The book includes a review of the role of public services in successful resettlement, even for the most resilient women. Open entitlement to these services for new citizens was the hallmark of multiculturalism prior to the reversals begun by the Howard Government in the mid 1990s. Olga Bursian uses wide ranging sources to back a rigorous policy and program analysis, pitched at professionals and decision makers. She has lived and worked across diverse cultures and was inspired to document the unbounded resilience of migrant women.

Intercultural Relations in a Global World

Published on September 20, 2011 in Book, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Intercultural Relations in a Global World edited by Michele Lobo, Vince Marotta and Nicole Oke is available as part of the On Diversity series.

The exploration of cross-cultural contact in a global and transnational world is essential in understanding how we can learn to live with difference in ways that go beyond tolerance. This book explores such contact in Euro-American/Australian societies as well as non-western multiethnic societies such as China, Malaysia, Indonesia and countries within Eastern Europe. The contributors in this book expose the power relations underpinning such encounters as well as explore the possibilities for meaningful dialogue.

Dr Michele Lobo is an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University. Her research focuses on intercultural relations and the social inclusion of ethnic minorities.

Dr Vince Marotta is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. He is Managing Editor of the Journal of Intercultural Studies (Routledge) and his research and publications focus on social theory, urban sociology, theories of the stranger and migration and multiculturalism.

Dr Nicole Oke is a Lecturer in Sociology & Community Development in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Victoria University, Australia. Her research interests are in the areas of globalisation, transnationalism and migration.