Mobilities of return : Pacific perspectives /

In recent decades, the term 'mobility' has emerged as a defining paradigm within the humanities. For scholars engaged in the multidisciplinary topics and perspectives now often embraced by the term Pacific Studies, it has been a much more longstanding and persistent concern. Even so, speci...

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Corporate Author: Australian National University Press
Other Authors: Taylor, John Patrick (Editor), Lee, Helen Morton, 1960- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Canberra : ANU Press, 2017.
Series:Pacific series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Beyond dead reckoning: mobilities of return in the Pacific / John Taylor
  • The diversification of return: Banaban home islands and movements in historical perspective / Wolfgang Kempf
  • The Rotuman experience with reverse migration / Alan Howard and Jan Rensel
  • Overseas-born youth in Tongan high schools: learning the hard life / Helen Lee
  • Agency and selfhood among young Palauan returnees / Rachana Agarwal
  • (Be)Longings: diasporic Pacific Islanders and the meaning of home / Kirsten McGavin
  • Adding insult to injury: experiences of mobile HIV-positive women who return home for treatment in Tanah Papua, Indonesia / Leslie Butt, Jenny Munro and Gerdha Numbery
  • Urban castaways: the precarious living of marooned islanders / Thorgeir Kolshus
  • Migration and homemaking practices among the Amis of Taiwan / Shu-Ling Yeh.