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Mobilities of return: Pacific perspectives

edited by John Taylor and Helen Lee
Resource Type:
E-Book
Publication:
Canberra : ANU Press, 2017
Copyright:
©2017
Related Series:
Pacific series
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Summary:
Review: 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, specific questions regarding 'mobilities of return'--that is, the movement of people 'back' to places that are designated, however ambiguously or ambivalently, as 'home'--have tended to take a back seat within more recent discussions of mobility, transnationalism and migration. This volume situates return mobility as a starting point for understanding the broader context and experience of human mobility, community and identity in the Pacific region and beyond. Through diverse case studies spanning the Pacific region, it demonstrates the extent to which the prospect and practice of returning home, or of navigating returns between multiple homes, is a central rather than peripheral component of contemporary Pacific Islander mobilities and identities everywhere.
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.
Contributors:
Taylor, John Patrick , editor
Lee, Helen Morton, 1960- , editor
Australian National University Press
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Other Related Resources:
Print version: Mobilities of return (ISBN 9781760461676; OCLC Number 1002925033)
Related Series:
Pacific series
Subjects:
Return migration — Pacific Area
Emigration and immigration
Population geography — Pacific Area
Place attachment — Pacific Area
Return migration
Population geography
Place attachment
Pacific Area
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Print version record.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (215 pages) : colour illustrations, maps.
Digital Characteristics:
text file
Call Numbers:
JV9290 .M635 2017eb
ISBNs:
9781760461683 (electronic bk.)
1760461687 (electronic bk.)
9781760461676 (paperback) [Invalid]
1760461679 (paperback) [Invalid]
Other Standard Numbers:
Digital Object Identifier: 10.22459/MR.12.2017
Library of Congress Control Numbers:
2017491180
OCLC Numbers:
1020308021