Alanna Kamp
Alanna Kamp (BA BSc Hons (UNSW)) is a PhD candidate in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney. Her main research interests are issues of immigration and racism in Australia, Indigenous attitudes to multiculturalism, Islam in Australia and Australia’s history of Chinese immigration and settlement. Her doctoral research is concerned with the place of female Chinese-Australians in understandings of national belonging and identity in the White Australia period. Recent (and forthcoming) publications include:
Dunn,K. and Kamp, A. (2009). “The hopeful and exclusionary politics of Islam in Australia: looking for alternative geographies of ‘Western Islam’”, in R. Phillips (ed) Muslim spaces of hope: geographies of possibility in Britain and the West, London: Zed Books
Kamp, A. (2010). “Formative Geographies of Belonging in White Australia: Constructing the National Self and Other in Parliamentary Debate, 1901”, Geographical Research (forthcoming)
Asian Australian Studies Research Network
The AASRN is a formal network for academic, community and other institutional groups who research in the area of Asian Australian Studies.
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