ISBN:
1-9215-3623-3
,
978-1-9215-3622-9
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 157 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Monographs in Anthropology Series
Keywords:
Papua-Neuguinea Irian Jaya
;
Flüchtling
;
Migration
;
Minorität
;
Kultur und Gesellschaft
;
Kulturwandel
;
Beziehungen, interethnische
;
Feldforschung
Abstract:
This book offers another frame through which to view the event of the 2006 outrigger landing of 43 West Papuans to Australia. West Papuans have crossed boundaries to seek asylum since 1962, usually eastward into Papua New Guinea (PNG), and occasionally southward to Australia. Between 1984-86, around 11,000 people crossed into PNG seeking asylum. After the Government of PNG acceded to the United Nations Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, West Papuans were relocated from informal camps on the international border to a single inland location called East Awin. This volume provides an ethnography of that settlement based on the author's fieldwork carried out in 1998-99. The various paths of flight and boundaries crossed, and people's efforts to inhabit East Awin the empty rainforest, seek to capture the texture of West Papuan displacement.
Description / Table of Contents:
Prologue: Intoxicating flag -- Speaking historically about West Papua -- Culture as the conscious object of performance -- A flight path -- Sensing displacement -- Refugee settlements as social spaces -- Inscribing the empty rainforest with our history -- Unsated sago appetites -- Becoming translokal -- Permissive residents -- Relocation to connected places -- Being 'indigenous' in the Indonesian province of Papua -- Coda: Forty-three West Papuans arrive in Australia by outrigger canoe, 2006
Note:
Based on the author's Ph.D. dissertation, Australian National University, 2001 entitled "Dwelling in exile, perceiving return: West Papuan refugees from Irian Jaya living at East Awin in Western Province, Papua New Guinea"
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