| Description |
viii,324 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Island studies series |
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Island studies series.
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| Contents |
1. Island Migration in a Changing World / John Connell and Russell King -- 2. From the Periphery of the Periphery: Historical, Cultural and Literary Perspectives on Emigration from the Minor Islands of Ireland / Stephen A. Royle -- 3. The Azores: Between Europe and North America / Allan M. Williams and Maria Lucinda Fonseca -- 4. Emigration and Demography in Cape Verde: Escaping the Malthusian Trap / Annababette Wils -- 5. Insiders and Outsiders: The Role of Insularity, Migration and Modernity on Grand Manan, New Brunswick / Joan Marshall -- 6. Migration as a Way of Life: Nevis and the Post-war Labour Movement to Britain / Margaret Byron -- 7. The Breath of 'The Beast': Migration, Volcanic Disaster, Place and Identity in Montserrat / Stuart B. Philpott -- 8. Caribbean Migration: Motivation and Choice of Destination in West Indian Literature / Brian Hudson |
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9. Between the Devil and a Warm Blue Sea: Islands and the Migration Experience in the Fiction of Jamaica Kincaid / Rachel Hughes -- 10. 'My Island Home': The Politics and Poetics of the Torres Strait / John Connell -- 11. Speaking of Norfolk Island: From Dystopia to Utopia? / Peter Muhlhausler and Elaine Stratford -- 12. Islanders in Space: Tongans Online / Helen Morton -- 13. Spatial Population Mobility as Social Interaction: A Fijian Island's Multi-local Village Community / Carsten Felgentreff -- 14. The Changing Contours of Migrant Samoan Kinship / Cluny Macpherson and La'avasa Macpherson -- 15. Islands as Havens for Retirement Migration: Finding a Place in Sunny Corfu / Gabriella Lazaridis, Joanna Poyago-Theotoky and Russell King |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| SUBJECT |
Island series (Newton Abbot, England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84725503
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| Subject |
Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Emigration and immigration.
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Islands -- Economic conditions.
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Islands -- Social conditions.
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Islands.
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Population geography.
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| Author |
Connell, John, 1946-
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King, Russell, 1945-
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| LC no. |
99017802 |
| ISBN |
185567548X |
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