Kirstie Petrou

If Everyone Returned, The Island Would Sink

Urbanisation and Migration in Vanuatu

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 urbanization and internal migration in the Global South.

Produktdetails

• Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9781789206210
• ISBN-10: 1789206219
• Artikelnr.: 57165187

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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