(Colic-Peisker and Tilbury, 2008; Hatoss, 2012; Windle, 2008). Using their personal stories Mapedzahama and Kwansah-Aidoo (2013, p. 5) illustrated the implications of othering and racialization for constructing identities and belonging as black African immigrants in Australia; by interrogating memories of everyday banal encounters, including selectively asking people 'where are you from?', they conclude that it ' $[\ldots]$ is about maintaining the asker's frame of reference for certain groups of people, assigning them to a predetermined, oftentimes racialized category'. For these authors, the process of identity construction and the negotiation of belonging in Australia is complex; it involves contesting powerful colonial discourses that equate blackness with otherness, while it also erases other, often group-specific, social identities and ways of being. They highlight the ambivalence that is produced as a result and reflected in hyphenated identities informed by both African-ness and Australian-ness.