If Everyone Returned, The Island Would Sink

Urbanisation and Migration in Vanuatu
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-621-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

Reihe: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists

Focusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanisation and internal migration in the Global South. Based on longitudinal research undertaken in rural ‘home’ places, urban suburbs and informal settlements over thirty years, this book reveals the deep ambivalence of the outcome of migration, and argues that continuity in the fundamental organising principles of cultural life – in this case centred on kinship and an ‘island home’ – is significantly more important for urban and rural lives than the transformative impacts of migration and urbanisation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petrou, Kirstie

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regionalgeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Urbanisation and Migration: Rapid Change but Enduring Patterns

Chapter 2. Subsistence Realities, Material Dreams: Rural Lives and Livelihoods

Chapter 3. It’s Like We Live in Town Already: Island Social Organisation

Chapter 4. The Everyday Ordinariness of Mobility: Persistent Patterns of Rural Outmigration

Chapter 5. I Just Came to Visit My Kin: The Evolution of Urban Permanence

Chapter 6. Friends, Lovers and Stranger Danger: Urban Social Worlds

Chapter 7. Living on Money: Urban Economic Life

Conclusion. Fluidity and Flexibility: A Generation of Paamese Migration and Urban Experiences

Glossary

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Petrou, Kirstie
Kirstie Petrou is a human geographer and a Research Associate at the Hugo Centre for Migration and Population Research at the University of Adelaide.  Her previous publications include (2017) ‘Before it wasn’t like this…: Longitudinal research and a generation of continuity and change in rural-urban migration in Vanuatu’. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 26(1): 31-55.

Kirstie Petrou is a human geographer and a Research Associate at the Hugo Centre for Migration and Population Research at the University of Adelaide.  Her previous publications include (2017) ‘Before it wasn’t like this…: Longitudinal research and a generation of continuity and change in rural-urban migration in Vanuatu’. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 26(1): 31-55.