| Description |
1 online resource (516 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction: A New Age of Temporary Migration? -- History -- The Pacific Island Countries -- Bibliography -- 2: The Pacific Island Countries -- Late Independence and Development -- Economic Development -- Agriculture, Forests and Fish -- Mines -- Tourism -- Employment, Incomes and Poverty -- Trade -- Aid -- Overcoming Tyrannies of Distance? -- Bibliography -- 3: Two Centuries of Pacific Migration -- Complex Labour Flows -- Blackbirding: The Early Labour Trade |
|
The Diversification of Migration -- Urbanisation -- The Global Long Boom: International Migration -- Hazards and Resettlement -- Remittances -- National Strategies and Migration Schemes -- The Precedence of Kiribati and Tuvalu -- Policy Detours -- APTC and KANI -- The Diversity of Migration -- Bibliography -- 4: The Revival of Guestwork -- A Twentieth-Century Twist-Back to Agriculture -- A Theoretical Detour ... and a Context -- Hard Realities -- Enter the World Bank -- The Canadian Model -- Labour Shortages and Development Directions -- Bibliography -- 5: Early Days |
|
New Zealand and the Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme -- Australia and the Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme -- The Pilot Schemes in Operation -- Vanuatu -- Recruiting from Tanna, Vanuatu -- From Vanuatu to New Zealand and Australia -- Tonga -- First Movers -- An Early Triple Win? -- Bibliography -- 6: Taking Part -- Where Do Workers Come From? -- Recruitment -- Pacific Labour Migration Policies and Legislation -- Agents: Advantages and Pitfalls -- Employer Involvement in Recruitment -- Worker Selection: Knowing the Right People -- Selecting Workers: Community Involvement? |
|
Geographies of Participation -- Return Workers -- Demographic Trends and Structures -- The High Cost of Labour Migration -- Pre-departure and Arrival Training: On to the Job -- Winners and Losers? Uneven Beginnings -- Bibliography -- 7: Destination Australia -- Labour Shortages? -- A Crisis and Clues from COVID-19 -- The Geography of Seasonal Work in Australia -- Employers' Perspectives -- On the Job -- Economic Gains -- Remittances -- Accommodation -- Getting Around? -- Health Costs -- Work and Welfare -- Bibliography -- 8: Social Worlds -- A Spectrum of Experiences -- Connection and Isolation |
|
Socio-economic Impacts on Host Communities -- Churches, Sport and Diaspora Connections -- Keeping in Touch with Home -- Labour Rights and Power Imbalances -- Blacklisting and Standing Down -- Underpayment and Elusive Wages -- Pastoral Care and Monitoring -- Unions: Fighting for Rights ... Sometimes -- Negotiating Online -- Transient Times -- Bibliography -- 9: Home Again -- New Wealth, Familiar Patterns -- Remittances in Kind: Technology and Consumer Durables -- Housing -- Education -- Business Development -- Social Functions and Community Objectives -- Family Breakdown? |
| Summary |
This is the first book to examine the contemporary seasonal migration of Pacific Islanders to Australia through the Seasonal Worker Program (SWP). It reflects on this new age of guestwork from a broad social, economic, political and cultural perspective in both source countries and destinations. In so doing, it offers a critical perspective on different phases of managed labour migration from nineteenth century practices of blackbirding to the present day. This book examines why and how guestworker policies and programmes have developed, and the impact this has had in Australia and for the people, villages and islands of the sending states. It particularly focuses on Vanuatu, the main source of labour, and draws upon studies based in Australia, Vanuatu and other Pacific Island countries. The book therefore traces new patterns of migration, with intriguing economic and social consequences, that are restructuring parts of rural and regional Australia in response to labour demands from agriculture and evolving regional geopolitics. Dr Kirstie Petrou is a human geographer at the Climate and Sustainability Policy Research group, Flinders University. Her research interests include migration, urbanisation and development in the Pacific. John Connell is a Professor of Geography in the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney. He works mainly on small island development issues in the Pacific region and has published several books on migration and colonialism |
| Notes |
Labour Losses and Food Security |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pacific Islanders -- Migrations
|
|
Pacific Islanders -- Employment -- Australia
|
|
Foreign workers -- Australia
|
|
Foreign workers
|
|
Pacific Islanders -- Migrations
|
|
Australia
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Connell, John, author
|
| ISBN |
9789811953873 |
|
9811953872 |
|
