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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Petrou, Kirstie (Author)
Corporate Author: Berghahn Books
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn, 2020.
Series:Pacific perspectives ; v. 7.
Subjects:
Urbanization > Vanuatu.
Migration, Internal > Vanuatu.
Population geography > Vanuatu.
Urbanisation > Vanuatu.
Migration intérieure > Vanuatu.
Géographie de la population > Vanuatu.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
Migration, Internal
Population geography
Social conditions
Urbanization
Vanuatu > Social conditions.
Vanuatu
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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