ABSTRACT Immigration is crucial to Canada’s population and economic growth targets and has increasingly occurred in suburbs, leading to social, cultural, economic, and physical changes. We explored the racial and ethnocultural dimensions of these changes, with a focus on Iranian immigrants. Questionnaire data revealed that most respondents were in core housing need, at risk of homelessness and lacked information; had unmet needs related to language and faced discrimination as visible minorities. Ethnicity or visible minority status is an important variable that must be considered and addressed in policy to improve outcomes. This research highlights the suburbanization of immigrants, particularly in the Greater Vancouver Area. Iranian immigrants, like many immigrant groups, are increasingly bypassing inner cities and settling in suburban areas such as Surrey, Burnaby, and Coquitlam. This shift reflects trends in immigrant settlement patterns, where affordability and social proximity to co-ethnic communities play a role. The inaccessibility of settlement services in the suburbs, combined with rising housing costs and discrimination, exacerbates these difficulties. This study suggests that informal networks, such as co-ethnic and religious communities, are relied upon for support during settlement, filling services gaps. This underscores the need for tailored policies and community-based interventions to support immigrant integration in Canada’s suburbs.

ABSTRACT Citizenship is a multi-layered concept that exceeds mere legal frameworks. Especially for immigrants, the new citizenship and its associated values are more than a legality; they are a milieu of uncertainty that needs to be explored. This paper examines citizenship as a lived experience of Turkish immigrants in Scotland as they navigate three key moments of British citizenship: participating in the oath-taking ceremony, connecting with the British monarchical figures and voting in the UK elections. These aspects highlight citizenship as a lived experience that is attached to practising the new identity and new values. Building on this relatively new concept of citizenship, this study argues that early performances, such as oath-taking and receiving the new passport, are often underemphasised and need to be studied. Based on 21 semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted during ethnographic fieldwork in Scotland within the broader context of Scotland’s contested position in the UK, this study offers a nuanced perspective on how citizenship is experienced, performed and emotionally negotiated.

ABSTRACT This article examines how third-generation Palestinian women born and raised in Qatar sustain cultural continuity and negotiate belonging in everyday life. Drawing on 15 in-depth interviews and short-term ethnographic engagement, and using women’s accounts as an empirical lens, it examines how strong Palestinian cultural and political identification coexists with deep biographical attachment to Qatar in a context where return remains constrained and legal status does not necessarily correspond to lived belonging. In dialogue with diaspora and cultural theory, particularly Hall’s approach to identity and Bhabha’s notion of hybridity, the study approaches cultural preservation as an ongoing practice of renewal rather than the preservation of an entirely unchanged cultural core. It finds that hybridity can operate as a form of agency through which cultural repertoires are maintained, adapted, and reworked, while remaining negotiated and sometimes contested by participants themselves. By foregrounding an underexamined Gulf-based, third-generation Palestinian case, the article contributes empirical insight to scholarship on Palestinian diaspora, belonging, and hybridity beyond camp-based and conventional citizenship-based contexts.

ABSTRACT This review essay examines two recent Japanese-language books that illuminate multicultural coexistence in contemporary Japan from complementary angles. The Town of Samba – and After documents three decades of social change in Ōizumi, Gunma, one of the municipalities with the highest proportions of foreign residents in the country. Rather than presenting coexistence as an achieved harmony, it portrays it as a fragile and ongoing practice sustained through negotiation among institutions, communities, and individuals. Municipalities Supporting a Multicultural Society shifts the focus from local experience to policy structure, treating foreign residents not simply as workers but as local residents whose lives depend on consultation services, welfare, education, and stable fiscal support. Read together, the two books reveal a central contradiction of Japanese multicultural coexistence: it already exists as a local social reality, yet it remains overly dependent on municipal improvisation and front-line actors. Ōizumi’s experience points to both the promise and the fragility of coexistence, suggesting that durable multiculturalism in Japan requires stronger institutional and fiscal support for local initiatives.

ABSTRACT In recent years, queer leftist critiques based in North America have examined how gay marriage, pink capitalism, and liberal inclusions of LGBTQ subjects led to the ascendency of homonationalism. This essay departs from existing critiques on the affect of queer liberalism in order to examine how gay men, lesbians, and queer subjects work through the affective economies of illiberal pragmatism in post-colonial and post-2019 protest Hong Kong. It explores the queer affect of the everyday in Ray Yeung’s two films on aging gay men and lesbians, namely Suk Suk (2019) and All Shall Be Well (2024). Whereas Suk Suk portrays the two contrasting worlds of everyday affects of heteronormative kinship and gay cruising and intimacy, All Shall Be Well attends to an immediacy of lesbian intimacy in the ‘now’ and a queer retro-temporality that dwells on an elsewhere utopia that exceeds the violence of everyday homophobia against lesbian intimacy and rights to inheritance. Comparatively, the two films illustrate how aging queer subjects in Hong Kong practice queer forms of everydayness that contest the onslaught of multiple hegemonic forces such as heteronormative kinship, real-estate capitalism, and the alliance between religious conservatism and mainstream politics that altogether condition queer lives in Hong Kong.

ABSTRACT Transnationality has recently become a central analytical lens for inquiries into how cultural elements circulate and acquire meaning beyond national boundaries. In recent years, Anatolian rock has emerged as a compelling case for understanding how genres circulate and gather new publics across borders. Accordingly, this study analyses English-language comments on the Anatolian Rock Revival Project YouTube channel to examine the transnational flow of this music genre. We argue that YouTube operates as an affective infrastructure that facilitates cross-cultural encounters, enabling the rearticulation of the Anatolian rock genre. Through their comments, users demonstrate their attachment to this genre in three distinct ways: (i) by framing YouTube as a platform for affective encounters with this music, (ii) by treating the comment section as a symbolic arena that celebrates the wide geographical spread of its listeners, and (iii) by endowing Anatolian rock with renewed affective meaning.

ABSTRACT This paper studies how contemporary Chinese diasporic settlers represent their experiences of Australia on Rednote (Xiaohongshu), a visually oriented social media platform with a predominantly young, female user base. Analysis of 248 Rednote posts by Chinese migrants in Australia reveals recurring portrayals of Australia as an empty land of leisure, a site of Chinese female liberation, and a space of upward mobility, framed through colonial imaginaries, relational feminism, and middle-class privilege. These representations, which echo settler colonial narratives of Australia, raise critical questions about how colonial representations are reproduced on contemporary platform cultures, and how migrants are situated within Australia’s settler colonial structures and visual regimes. Bringing Australian studies, settler colonial studies, and platform studies into dialogue, we argue that Rednote’s ostensibly apolitical, consumerist orientation, with its algorithmic privileging of monetizable, middle-class, feminine lifestyle content, works as a key vector for normalising and reinforcing colonial visual imaginaries of Australia, feminism, and middle-classness among Chinese diasporic settlers, while obscuring the material and historical realities of Australia.

ABSTRACT This article examines feminist Indigenous audiovisual collectives in Mexico as sites of visual sovereignty and intercultural knowledge production. Challenging liberal multicultural approaches that frame interculturality through state recognition and cultural inclusion, it argues that Indigenous women's media practices exceed these frameworks. Drawing on Indigenous media theory, decolonial feminist thought and intercultural studies, the article conceptualizes visual sovereignty as a relational and epistemic practice grounded in territoriality, collective authorship and gendered Indigenous knowledge. Through qualitative analysis of audiovisual productions associated with Proyecto Videoastas Indígenas de la Frontera Sur (PVIFS) and K'inal Antsetik, it shows how these practices challenge dominant regimes of visibility, unsettle cultural citizenship and articulate belonging beyond state-centered models. Testimonial practices, community-based knowledge and territorial relations emerge as strategies through which Indigenous women assert epistemic authority and reshape intercultural dialogue. By bringing visual sovereignty into conversation with intercultural studies, the article advances a decolonial feminist perspective that reconceptualizes interculturality as an epistemic field of struggle rather than a policy framework for diversity management.

ABSTRACT This article convenes a transnational dialogue on The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy by bringing together three scholars from Australia, France, and the United States – Debbie Bargallie, Houria Bouteldja, and Too Black – to reflect on the contemporary relevance of Alana Lentin’s contribution to race critical theory. Each contributor engages the book through a key concern it raises, while Lentin responds by reflecting on how race critical theory operates across different political and geographical contexts. Conducted over six months via email, the exchange evolved alongside unfolding geopolitical events, prompting further consideration of the urgency and analytical significance of Lentin’s work. The article reproduces this dialogue in full, highlighting the global resonance of debates on race, racism, and white supremacy in the current conjuncture.