- Introduction – JPacS Speacial Issue
- Uncertain Belongings: Relationships, Money and Returned Migrant Workers in Port Vila, Vanuatu
- ‘On the ship, you can do anything’: the impact of international cruiseship employment for i-Kiribati women
- Climate change and migration: the case of the Pacific Islands and Australia
- Australian Refugee Policy and its Impacts on Pacific Island Countries
- Internal Migration in the Pacific Islands: a regional overview
- Pacific migration futures: ancient solutions to contemporary and prospective challenges?
- Review of the New Pacific Diplomacy
- Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns. Home thoughts Abroad
- Introduction – JPacS Speacial Issue
- Uncertain Belongings: Relationships, Money and Returned Migrant Workers in Port Vila, Vanuatu
- ‘On the ship, you can do anything’: the impact of international cruiseship employment for i-Kiribati women
- Climate change and migration: the case of the Pacific Islands and Australia
- Australian Refugee Policy and its Impacts on Pacific Island Countries
- Internal Migration in the Pacific Islands: a regional overview
- Pacific migration futures: ancient solutions to contemporary and prospective challenges?
- Review of the New Pacific Diplomacy
- Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns. Home thoughts Abroad
Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns. Home thoughts Abroad
Author: Andreea R. Torre
While clearly initiated with the intent of celebrating Murray Chapman and the legacy of his work in the fields of human geography and mobility in Oceania, this theoretically and methodologically inspiring volume greatly contributes to the current literature on migration in the Pacific region and globally in more general terms. The collection strongly advocates for what Chapman himself called the need for “alternative manners of thinking” (Chapman, 1995, p.254) about Pacific Islanders’ practices of internal and/or international mobility. An alternative thinking which should centre around the idea of movement as an embodied experience and incorporate local knowledge and socio-cultural relations within its investigation of the determinants and implications of migration in Oceania…