(Be)Longings: Diasporic Pacific Islanders and the meaning of home

McGavin, Kirsten

doi:10.22459/mr.12.2017.06

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“…She first went to Aotearoa New Zealand in 1995 to visit museum collections, attend weaving workshops with internationally recognised Māori weavers, and learn from the elders of her iwi (tribe). This was her first ‘homecoming’, a ‘trip to the homeland specifically undertaken by the person, and usually accompanied by a senior family member, to learn more about their heritage and family history’ (McGavin, 2017, p. 125). After several trips, Ruki realised she did not want only to reproduce traditional objects and techniques; she wanted to articulate her new skills around her own Australian life experience.…”

Section: Keren Ruki's Artistic and Curatorial Trajectory: Giving Voic...mentioning

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“…Drawing from a comparative observation of diasporic Pacific communities in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, Kirsten McGavin shows how ‘panethnic labels of identity are important to diasporic communities in Australia’ (McGavin, 2017, p. 125). The author also demonstrates how Pacific collectivism embraces and acknowledges ethnic‐specific identifications.…”

Section: ‘But Where Are You From For Real?’ Statistics Politics and S...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Pacific artistic communities in Australia: Gaining visibility in the art world

Roux

2022

Australian J of Anthropology

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This article shows that although Pacific arts began to be largely recognised in Australia in the 1990s, Pacific artists based in Australia remained mostly invisible in the contemporary art scene until the mid-2000s. I aim to demonstrate how Pacific artists and curators-who in some cases collaborated with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and curators-have made visible myriad Pacific identities and social trajectories in Australian cities. Exhibitions reveal and highlight multiple experiences of Pacific people residing in Australia, for whom Pacific cultures are partly mediated by the experiences of their relatives, popularised by museum collections and coloured by the gaze of non-Pacific people. This article is built around two cultural events that have not previously received scholarly attention, a group show curated in Sydney by Māori artist and cultural worker Keren Ruki and a triennial in Brisbane imagined and organised by Bundjalung Yugambeh

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Section: ‘But Where Are You From For Real?’ Statistics Politics and S...mentioning

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Pacific artistic communities in Australia: Gaining visibility in the art world

Roux

2022

Australian J of Anthropology

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“…Transnational families and relationships between diaspora and home communities are important topics in contemporary Oceanic societies (e.g. McGavin 2017). Anthropology has contributed to policy discourses on issues like gender and HIV/AIDS, and sorcery related violence and masculinity.…”

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Nahau, Pihi Manus, Pilapan: Hegemony's gender as artefacts of history

Rooney

2022

Suomen Antropologi

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It is a pleasure to contribute to the book forum on the republication of the book Culture and History in the Pacific. My contribution comprises two parts. In the first part, I briefly reflect on the book and its current relevance and highlight some issues that resonate with me. In the second part, I provide a more personal response to the book. Together, I hope that this two-part reflection shows the important place this book has in mediating past and present contributions and challenges in anthropological practice.

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“…For example, at the core of many chapters is the question of how identities (both of returnees and of local communities receiving returnees) are (re)negotiated and how the sense of home evolves. In the same perspective, Kirsten McGavin (2017), in a chapter of the book on return mobilities (2017), analyses return experiences of Pacific Islanders living in Australia and how the meanings of home, belonging, and identity fluctuate and oscillate between expectations and the actual experience of return. The different chapters illustrate the relational, contextual, and affective dimensions of return.…”

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Governing Irregular and Return Migration in the 2020s: European Challenges and Asian Pacific Perspectives

Triandafyllidou

Ricard-Guay

2019

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies

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Most research on irregular migration in Europe has so far developed with a Eurocentric focus not sufficiently engaging with parallel policy and research developments in other world regions. The publication of McAuliffe and Koser's (2017) A Long Way to Go, Irregular Migration Patterns, Processes, Drivers and Decision-Making and Taylor and Lee's (2017) Mobilities of Return: Pacific Perspectives on the Asia Pacific regional challenges of irregular migration and complex mobility offer a welcome opportunity to reflect on related research findings and common challenges for migration and asylum governance in Europe and the Asia Pacific.

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(Be)Longings: Diasporic Pacific Islanders and the meaning of home

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Pacific artistic communities in Australia: Gaining visibility in the art world

Pacific artistic communities in Australia: Gaining visibility in the art world

Nahau, Pihi Manus, Pilapan: Hegemony's gender as artefacts of history

Governing Irregular and Return Migration in the 2020s: European Challenges and Asian Pacific Perspectives

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