Research Catalog

Title

A world perspective on Pacific Islander migration : Australia, New Zealand and the USA / edited by Grant McCall, John Connell.

Publication

Kensington, N.S.W. : Centre for South Pacific Studies, University of New South Wales in association with the Bureau of Immigration Research, ©1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McCall, Grant.
• Connell, John, 1946-
• University of New South Wales. Centre for South Pacific Studies.
• Australia. Bureau of Immigration Research.

Description

xii, 386 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Summary

"The papers in this volume are mostly from the 1990 conference on Pacific Islander Migration: Australia, New Zealand, and the USA, organised by the Centre for South Pacific Studies at the University of New South Wales"--Page 4 of cover.

Series Statement

Pacific studies monograph, 1035-6894 ; no. 6

Uniform Title

Pacific studies monograph ; no. 6.

Subject

• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
• Pacific Islanders > Australia > Congresses
• Pacific Islanders > New Zealand > Congresses
• Pacific Islanders > United States > Congresses
• Emigration and immigration
• Pacific Islanders
• Migration
• Oceaniërs
• Emigratie
• international migration
• migration
• migrant workers
• Iwi taketake
• migration internationale
• travailleur migrant
• migración internacional
• migración
• trabajador migrante
• Islands of the Pacific > Emigration and immigration > Congresses
• Australia
• New Zealand
• Pacific Ocean > Islands of the Pacific
• United States
• Australien
• Neuseeland
• Ozeanien
• Australia
• New Zealand
• Pacific
• USA
• Australie
• Nouvelle-Zélande
• Pacifique
• Etats-Unis
• Pacífico
• Estados Unidos
• Nueva Zelandia

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "The papers in this volume are mostly from the 1990 conference on Pacific Islander Migration: Australia, New Zealand, and the USA, organised by the Centre for South Pacific Studies at the University of New South Wales"--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Pacific Islander migration: context and prospects -- Overviews and specific views: Questioning development: an issues behind the issues. A gathering of saints: the role of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Pacific Islander migration -- Pacific Islander migration to Australia: Opening remarks: rigorous migration and generous settlement procedures. The Ethnic Affairs Commission of New South Wales and South Pacific Islanders: a position paper. Students from the Pacific Islands and education. Pacific Islanders in New South Wales. Maori in australia: a statistical summary. Pacific Islander migration: a Maori perspective. Tongan health: a personal view. Pacific Islanders and the Australian census. Regional dimensions of Australia's multicultural policy.
• Pacific Islander migration to North America: Pacific Islanders in the United States census data. South Pacific Islander migration and settlement in Canada. Becoming a competent migrant community: the case of American Samoans in California. Movement networks and relative economies in Samoa and Micronesia. Urban Native American Samoans in the USA: employment, human services and organisational development issues -- Pacific Islander migration to New Zealand: A ministry for Pacific Islanders. Island-born and New Zealand-born Pacific Islanders in the workforce: a perspective. Pacific Island Women's Health Project ak: a summary. Pacific Islanders in New Zealand hospitals. Recent political experiences of Cook Island migrants in New Zealand.
• Internal migration in Micronesia: Pursuing the dream: historical perspectives on Micronesian movement patterns. Opportunity and migration in Micronesia. Movements in Micronesia: post-compact (1987) Micronesian migrants to Guam and Saipan. Colonial immigration on Guam: displacement of the Chamorro people under U.S. governance. Kiribati: development and internal migration -- Effects back home: How immigration affects the home country. Remittance income: its importance for some Pacific Island countries and implications for production. The economics of Pacific Islander migration: a lot of conjecture and a little bit of data. A positive response to migration constraints. Effects of migration on Western Samoa: an island viewpoint. Cash and kin: aspects of migration and remittance from the perspective of a fishing village in Vava'u, Tonga.

ISBN

• 0733402852
• 9780733402852

LCCN

94104648

OCLC

• ocm31605341
• 31605341
• SCSB-2089707

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library