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.
Tabella dei contenuti
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
Circa l’autore
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.
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