Amanda's research interests include comparative work on global cities and diversity; materialities, civilities, and 'sensibilities' of urban life; multiculturalism and 'lived diversity' (especially 'everyday multiculturalism'); race and interethnic relations; social cohesion & integration; cultural attachments to and formations of place, especially in relation to multicultural cities; national and cultural identities; diasporic, transnational and migrant communities and migration more generally;...
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1252
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5204-6295
Twitter https://twitter.com/@AmandaYWise

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • Macquarie University

    University, Sydney, Australia
    Professor of Sociology

  • Macquarie University

    University, Sydney, Australia

  • Australian National University

    University, Canberra, Australia
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research

KOPITIAM CONVIVIALITY: A STRENGTHS-BASED APPROACH TO COMMUNITY RESILIENCE IN SUPERDIVERSE SINGAPORE

Authors Selvaraj Velayutham, Amanda Wise
Year 2023
Book Title Confident Identities, Connected Communities
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1 Book Chapter

The right to the city: outdoor informal sport and urban belonging in multicultural spaces

Authors Kristine Aquino, Amanda Wise, Selvaraj Velayutham, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name ANNALS OF LEISURE RESEARCH
Citations (WoS) 26
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2 Journal Article

Humour at work: conviviality through language play in Singapore’s multicultural workplaces

Authors Amanda Wise, Selvaraj Velayutham
Year 2019
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
3 Journal Article

The Long Reach of the Riots: Denying Racism, Forgetting Cronulla

Authors Amanda Wise
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Intercultural Studies
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4 Journal Article

Transnational Affect and Emotion in Migration Research

Authors Amanda Wise, Selvaraj Velayutham
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Sociology
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5 Journal Article

Convivial Labour and the ‘Joking Relationship’: Humour and Everyday Multiculturalism at Work

Authors Amanda Wise
Year 2016
Journal Name Journal of Intercultural Studies
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6 Journal Article

Convivialities: An Orientation

Authors Amanda Wise, Greg Noble
Year 2016
Journal Name Journal of Intercultural Studies
7 Journal Article

Becoming cosmopolitan: encountering difference in a city of mobile labour

Authors Amanda Wise
Year 2016
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 8
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8 Journal Article

Conviviality in everyday multiculturalism: Some brief comparisons between Singapore and Sydney

Authors Amanda Wise, Selvaraj Velayutham
Year 2014
Journal Name European Journal of Cultural Studies
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9 Journal Article

Pyramid subcontracting and moral detachment: Down-sourcing risk and responsibility in the management of transnational labour in Asia

Authors Amanda Wise
Year 2013
Journal Name The Economic and Labour Relations Review
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10 Journal Article

Hope in aLand of Strangers

Authors Amanda Wise
Year 2013
Journal Name Identities
11 Journal Article

Moving Food: Gustatory Commensality And Disjuncture In Everyday Multiculturalism

Authors Amanda Wise
Year 2011
Journal Name New Formations
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12 Journal Article

'Foreign' Signs and Multicultural Belongings on a Diverse Shopping Street

Authors Amanda Wise
Year 2011
Journal Name Built Environment
13 Journal Article

Sensuous Multiculturalism: Emotional Landscapes of Inter-Ethnic Living in Australian Suburbia

Authors Amanda Wise
Year 2010
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 91
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14 Journal Article

Introduction: Multiculturalism and Everyday Life

Authors Amanda Wise, Selvaraj Velayutham
Year 2009
Book Title Everyday Multiculturalism
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16 Book Chapter

Second-Generation Tamils and Cross-Cultural Marriage: Managing the Translocal Village in a Moment of Cultural Rupture

Authors Amanda Wise, Selvaraj Velayutham
Year 2007
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 17
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17 Journal Article

Introduction: Migration, Affect and the Senses

Authors Amanda Wise, Adam Chapman
Year 2005
Journal Name Journal of Intercultural Studies
18 Journal Article

Hope and Belonging in a Multicultural Suburb

Authors Amanda Wise
Year 2005
Journal Name Journal of Intercultural Studies
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19 Journal Article

Dancing with Ga(y)nesh: Rethinking cultural appropriation in multicultural Australia

Authors Selvaraj Velayutham, Amanda Wise
Year 2001
Journal Name Postcolonial Studies
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20 Journal Article

Superdiversity and the Everyday

Authors Amanda Wise
Year 2022
Book Title The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity
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21 Book Chapter

Suggested Research

Moral economies of a translocal village: obligation and shame among South Indian transnational migrants

Authors SELVARAJ VELAYUTHAM, AMANDA WISE
Year 2005
Journal Name Global Networks
Citations (WoS) 76
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1 Journal Article
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