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If everyone returned, the island would sink : urbanisation and migration in Vanuatu /

"Focusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanization and internal migration in the Global South. Based on longitudinal research undertaken in rural 'home' places, urban subur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Petrou, Kirstie (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Berghahn Books
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn, 2020.
Colección:Pacific perspectives ; v. 7.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Urbanisation and migration: Rapid change but enduring patterns
  • Chapter 2. Subsistence realities, material dreams: Rural lives and livelihoods
  • Chapter 3. It's like we live in town already: Island social organisation
  • Chapter 4. The everyday ordinariness of mobility: Persistent patterns of rural outmigration
  • Chapter 5. I just came to visit my kin: The evolution of urban permanence
  • Chapter 6. Friends, lovers and stranger danger: Urban social worlds
  • Chapter 7. Living on money: Urban economic life
  • Conclusion. Fluidity and flexibility: A generation of Paamese migration and urban experiences.