Introduction to Home: An exploratory journey with young Somali-Australians

Nunn, C.

Introduction to Home: An exploratory journey with young Somali-Australians

Nunn, C.

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C. Nunn

Abstract

As the first generation of young people growing up in an emerging immigrant community, the Somali-Australians who passed through adolescence in the first decade of this century were pioneers. Forging their own paths through the spatial, socio-cultural and emotional terrain of Somalia(n) and Australia(n), they created new cartographies of home. Home: an exploratory journey with young Somali-Australians both reflects and constitutes this process. Emerging out of a collaboration between researchers, artists, and Somali-background youth, Home: is an audio-visual work that integrates documentary, acted scenes, interviews and photographs to chart the complexity and dynamism of producing and inhabiting home. The outcome is a polyvocal and multisensory map that takes the viewer into the homes of young Somali-Australians.

Citation

Nunn, C. (2016). Introduction to Home: An exploratory journey with young Somali-Australians. Liminalities, 12(1),

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Apr 8, 2015
Publication Date	Jan 1, 2016
Deposit Date	Nov 27, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Jan 27, 2017
Journal	Liminalities : a journal of performance studies.
Publisher	Liminalities
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	12
Issue	1
Publisher URL	http://liminalities.net/12-1/home.html

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