ISBN:
9780415224307
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (294 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Population and Migration
Parallel Title:
Print version Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America
DDC:
304.62
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Focusing on the four 'New World' countries - Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States - this book explores key themes and issues in indigenous mobility
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: New World demography; International perspectives; Continuity and change in Indigenous Australian population mobility; Flirting with Zelinsky in Aotearoa/New Zealand: a Maori mobility transition; Migration and spatial distribution of American Indians in the twentieth century; Government policy and the spatial redistribution of Canada's Aboriginal peoples; Data issues and analysis; Data sources and issues for the analysis of Indigenous peoples' mobility
Description / Table of Contents:
Registered Indian mobility and migration in Canada: patterns and implicationsLocal contingency; The politics of Maori mobility; American Indians and geographic mobility: some parameters for public policy; The formation of contemporary Aboriginal settlement patterns in Australia: government policies and programmes; Myth of the ~walkabout~: movement in the Aboriginal domain; The social underpinnings of an ~outstation movement~ in Cape York Peninsula, Australia; Conclusion: emerging research themes; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
