Abstract:
This article examines acculturation strategies that accompany the experience of resettlement in Australia. The concept of contrapuntality is used to identify multiple actors and the loci of power to examine the complexities involved with cultural maintenance and inter-cultural contact in a new host society. This perspective provides a framework to examine what might be involved for resettled Sudanese men – beyond an individual decision to integrate – when crafting a new social existence in Australia.