Local and Refugee Youth in Rural Australia: Negotiating Intercultural Relationships and Belonging in Rural Places

Young people from refugee backgrounds are increasingly settling in Australia’s transforming rural communities. This chapter is concerned with how we frame our understanding of diverse young people’s negotiation of intercultural relationships within such rural places of social change. An argument is set forth for the importance of everyday multicultural frameworks situated in place, as well as theories of rurality and class culture in making sense of convivialities, commonalities, prejudice and racism among diverse rural youth. This has implications for how we understand the work of belonging among youth coming of age in rural communities.