Neither Here nor There, Still: Microaggressions and Everyday Racism in Multicultural Australia
摘要
This chapter addresses the gap in the literature on the racism experiences of migrant musicians by examining the case of Filipino musicians and the realities they face as migrant cover performers in Australia. Specifically, this chapter presents some of the forms of microaggressions and everyday racism that Filipino musicians encounter despite their possession of musicality and perception of belongingness in Australia. This chapter further analyses the presence of negative racialisation at broader structural level against migrant musicians, including their situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Problems encountered by Filipino musicians relating to the entertainment and music industries were examined further in this chapter to show how precarity is encountered and how various aspects of music performance have been neglected (e.g., musicians’ welfare, migrants’ access to grants). I argue in this chapter that these issues are foregrounded by the liminality and precarity of the music industries and the situatedness of Filipino musicians as migrants and cover musicians.