Overview
The first book to examine the ‘new age’ of seasonal migration guest working from Pacific island states to Australia
Offers insights into new patterns of migration restructuring parts of the Pacific, and of rural and regional Australia
Provides a succinct and accessible overview of an emerging, highly topical and sometimes controversial issue
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This is the first book to examine the contemporary seasonal migration of Pacific islanders to Australia through the Seasonal Worker Programme (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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr Kirstie Petrou is a human geographer and research fellow 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia
Book Subtitle: The New Blackbirds?
Authors: Kirstie Petrou, John Connell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5387-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5386-6Published: 02 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5389-7Published: 02 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-5387-3Published: 01 December 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 506
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Migration, Geography, general, Development Studies