Imagining Latin America in Australia : migration, culture and multiculturalism

This special issue draws on a workshop organised by the editors in 2011 at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney. Its focus was to explore the increasing flows of people, commodities, ideas and practices between Latin America and Australia. Taken as a whole, the issue considers how Latin America is represented in popular culture, how Latin American communities represent themselves and how these communities interact with each other and with other communities within multicultural Australia. It also addresses the ways in which these migrants keep connections with their home countries and the place of Australia within a network of sites of the Latin America diaspora.