%0 Thesis %A MARINAS, REYVI CO %D 2019 %T Conscious Citizenship: The Political Activism of the Filipino Diaspora in Australia Through the Lens of Hannah Arendt %U https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Conscious_Citizenship_The_Political_Activism_of_the_Filipino_Diaspora_in_Australia_Through_the_Lens_of_Hannah_Arendt/7459115 %R 10.26180/5c18ba878027b %2 https://bridges.monash.edu/ndownloader/files/14394863 %K Citizenship %K Migrant Activism %K Diaspora Studies %K Transnationalism %K Filipino Studies %K Hannah Arendt %K Australia %K Law %K Sociology %K Political Theory and Political Philosophy %X This thesis explores an alternative way of looking at the idea of citizenship I call ‘conscious citizenship’. I utilise Hannah Arendt’s theory of the conscious pariah to investigate the political activism of Migrante Australia, a Filipino migrant organisation in Australia. I argue that an Arendtian approach is a suitable framework for this thesis because of Migrante’s activism that demonstrates the pariah’s rebellious character. It concludes by showing how political action paves the way for the emergence of a new Filipino collective identity in Australia which is based on agency, awareness and emotional attachment to group collectivities. %I Monash University