Transforming Griffith : multiculturalism and "the Italian influence"

![CDATA[Multiculturalism, which in Australia refers to both a government policy for managing non-Anglo-Celtic migrants and the actual cultural diversity of Australia, has in recent decades been "assaulted from all sides," leaving it hanging in the balance (Hodge and O'Carroll chap. 1). What multiculturalism needs, Bob Hodge and John O'Carroll say, is to be "revised, not discredited and removed" (chap. 1). This paper is, in part, an attempt to respond to this call for a new way of conceptualising multiculturalism, one that foregrounds its achievements and puts a new, deeper and more positive version of multiculturalism back on the agenda.]]