{"id":1181,"date":"2023-01-23T10:09:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T04:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ir\/?page_id=1181"},"modified":"2023-01-23T10:15:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T04:45:42","slug":"staff-publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ir\/index.php\/staff-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Immigrants\u2019 Citizenship Perceptions<\/h2>\n<p><em>Sri Lankans in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>By Dr. Pavithra Jayawardena<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adopting a transnational lens, Immigrants\u2019 Citizenship Perceptions: Sri Lankans in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand investigates Sri Lankan immigrants\u2019 complex views towards their home (Sri Lankan) and host (Australian or Aotearoa New Zealand) citizenship and the factors that affect them. The book argues that the existing citizenship policies and popular discourses towards immigrants have a strong nation-statist bias in which native citizens believe that they know how exactly immigrants should behave or feel as host citizens. The book problematises this assumption by highlighting the fact that it represents more how immigrants\u2019 citizenship perceptions should be while ignoring how they actually are. Unlike native citizens, immigrants must balance two different positions in how they view citizenship, that is, as native citizens of their home countries and as immigrants in their host countries. These two positionalities lead immigrants to a very different perspective of citizenship. Deliberating on the complexities displayed in Sri Lankan immigrants\u2019 views on their home and host citizenship, the book presents a critical analysis of citizenship views from immigrants\u2019 standpoint. This book will hence be useful for policy makers, students, and researchers in the fields of migration and citizenship as it looks at immigrants\u2019 contextual realities in depth and suggests an alternative approach to understanding their perceptions of citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1177\" src=\"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/unnamed-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"657\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Immigrants\u2019 Citizenship Perceptions Sri Lankans in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. By Dr. Pavithra Jayawardena Adopting a transnational lens, Immigrants\u2019 Citizenship Perceptions: Sri Lankans in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand investigates Sri Lankan immigrants\u2019 complex views towards their home (Sri Lankan) and host (Australian or Aotearoa New Zealand) citizenship and the factors that affect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1181\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}