24 The Australian Community Psychologist Volume 21 No 1 June 2009 This article examines dynamics of inclusion and exclusion through the experiences of second generation Cypriot Turkish Australians. In the year 1973 the White Australia Policy, which favoured immigration from certain countries, was officially replaced with the national policy of Multiculturalism. Multicultural policies did not discriminate on the basis of race, culture and religion in relation to immigration to Australia (Department of Immigration and Citizenship [DIAC], 2007). Multicultural policies were also a reactionary move following migrant resistance to assimilation as they redefined their past in a new social and political context (Vasta, 1993). Multicultural policies afforded different ethnic groups the right to practice their cultural and religious beliefs (DIAC, 2003). These policies provided impetus for the construction of new discourses and the emergence of the ethnic identity. In Australia, the ethnic category embraces the identities of many migrants and the descendants of migrants in Australia. However, descendants of an Anglo Saxon background are ostensibly omitted from this category 1 . Those of Anglo Saxon background are simply identified as Australian, as not having an ethnic identity. On the other hand, for many migrant descendants their Australian identity is accessible if it is hyphenated with their ethnic identity. As a result people other than Anglo Saxon have noted ambiguity about their belongingness to the Australian community (Ang, Brand, Noble & Sternberg, 2006; Castles & Vasta, 1996; Sonn & Lewis, 2009; Vasta, 1992; Vasta, 1993; Zevallos, 2003; Zevallos & Gilding, 2003). These processes of identity negotiation, which we describe in this article, demonstrate the relational and contingent nature of ethnic identity. Ethnic identity is conceptualised as a relational construct which is negotiated with ones world and other people, structures, social conditions expressed through discourses rather than something that is possessed (Hook, 2003; Verkuyten, 2005). Mama (1995) defines discourses as “historically constructed regimes of knowledge. These include common-sense assumptions and taken-for-granted ideas, belief systems and myths that groups of people share and through which they understand each other” (p. 98). Discourses position people in relation to each other socially, culturally, and Multiculturalism and Whiteness: Through the Experiences of Second Generation Cypriot Turkish Lütfiye Ali Christopher C. Sonn Victoria University Multicultural policies have enabled many migrants and their descendents to develop a sense of belonging to Australia. However, national multicultural policies also position the Anglo Saxon descendents as a higher civilised group who are more Australian relative to their ‘ethnic’ counterparts, who are confronted with ambiguity when identifying as an Australian. By adopting critical whiteness studies as an analytical framework we explore community dynamics by focusing on how the Anglo Saxon ethnic group maintains its dominance and privilege. We examine discourses that second generation Cypriot Turkish people in Australia use to construct their identity. Our analysis reveals the covert and often banal ways in which privilege is maintained. We suggest that whiteness studies provides a set of tools to extend critical community psychology because of its focus on unpacking how dominance is negotiated and potentially reproduced by those who have differential access to racialised privilege.