TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lee, Helen
AU  - Tupai Francis, Steve
AB  - Pacific Islanders have engaged in transnational practices since their first settlement of the many islands in the region. As they moved beyond the Pacific and settled in nations such as New Zealand, the U.S. and Australia these practices intensified and over time have profoundly shaped both home and diasporic communities. This edited volume begins with a detailed account of this history and the key issues in Pacific migration and transnationalism today. The papers that follow present a range of case studies that maintain this focus on both historical and contemporary perspectives. Each of the contributors goes beyond a narrowly economic focus to present the human face of migration and transnationalism; exploring questions of cultural values and identity, transformations in kinship, intergenerational change and the impact on home communities. Pacific migration and transnationalism are addressed in this volume in the context of increasing globalisation and growing concerns about the future social, political and economic security of the Pacific region. As the case studies presented here show, the future of the Pacific depends in many ways on the ties diasporic Islanders maintain with their homelands.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_459370
ID  - OAPEN ID: 459370
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 433568973
KW  - immigration
KW  - transnationalism
KW  - migrations of nations
KW  - pacific area
KW  - emigration
KW  - Australia
KW  - Fiji
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Niue
KW  - Remittance
KW  - Samoa
KW  - Tonga
KW  - Tongan language
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/e265cac2-1c67-43fc-a42a-7a8832081228/459370.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33689
PB  - ANU Press
PP  - Canberra
PY  - 2009
TI  - Migration and Transnationalism : Pacific Perspectives
ER  - 
