ISBN:
9781789206227
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
214 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists 7
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
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 --
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