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5 - Pacific Islander Mobilities from Colonial Incursions to the Present

from Part II - Empires, New Nations, and Mobilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2023

By
Rachel Standfield ,
Ruth Faleolo  and
Darcy Wallis
Edited by
Marcelo J. Borges  and
Madeline Y. Hsu
Marcelo J. Borges
Affiliation:
Dickinson College, Pennsylvania
Madeline Y. Hsu
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin
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Summary

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. Despite revolutionary changes in communication technologies, the growing accessibility of long-distance travel, and globalization across major economies, the rise of nation-states empowered immigration regulation and bureaucratic capacities for enforcement that curtailed migration. One major theme worldwide across the post-1800 centuries was the differentiation between “skilled” and “unskilled” workers, often considered through a racialized lens; it emerged as the primary divide between greater rights of immigration and citizenship for the former, and confinement to temporary or unauthorized migrant status for the latter. Through thirty-one chapters, this volume further evaluates the long global history of migration; and it shows that despite the increased disciplinary systems, the primacy of migration remains and continues to shape political, economic, and social landscapes around the world.

Keywords

PacificPasifikaIndigenousMāoriAustralian Aboriginal peoplesmobilities in ontologiesdiasporakinshipcolonialismindentured labor
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The Cambridge History of Global Migrations , pp. 123 - 138
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Banivanua Mar, Tracey. Decolonization and the Pacific: Indigenous Globalization and the Ends of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Banivanua Mar, Tracey. Violence and Colonial Dialogue: The Australian-Pacific Indentured Labor Trade. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2007.Google Scholar
D’Arcy, Paul. The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Faleolo, Ruth (Lute). “Well-Being Perspectives, Conceptualizations of Work and Labour Mobility Experiences of Pasifika Trans-Tasman Migrants in Brisbane,” in Labour Lines and Colonial Power: Indigenous and Pacific Islander Labour Mobility in Australia, ed. Stead, Victoria and Altman, Jon, 185–206. Canberra: ANU Press, 2019.Google Scholar
Hau‘ofa, Epeli. “Our Sea of Islands,” in A New Oceania: Rediscovering Our Sea of Islands, ed. Waddell, Eric, Naidu, Vijay, and Hau‘ofa, Epeli, 2–16. Suva: School of Social and Economic Development, University of the South Pacific, and Bleake House, 1993.Google Scholar
Salesa, Damon. “New Zealand’s Pacific,” in The New Oxford History of New Zealand, ed. Byrnes, Giselle. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Standfield, Rachel, ed. Indigenous Mobilities: Across and beyond the Antipodes. Canberra: Aboriginal History, 2018.Google Scholar
Standfield, Rachel and Stevens, Michael J.. “New Histories But Old Patterns: Kāi Tahu in Australia,” in Labour Lines: Indigenous and Pacific Islander Labour Mobility in Australia, ed. Stead, Victoria and Altman, Jon, 103–131. Canberra: ANU Press, 2019.Google Scholar
Thrush, Coll. Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.Google Scholar
Vogl, Anthea. “Sovereign Relations: Australia’s ‘Off-shoring’ of Asylum Seekers on Nauru in Historical Perspective,” in Against International Norms: Postcolonial Perspectives, ed. Epstein, Charlotte, 158–174. London: Routledge, 2017.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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