Pacific Youth, Local and Global

Lee, Helen; Craney, Aidan

doi:10.22459/py.2019.01

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“…The Pacific diaspora is increasingly well understood, but what is new here is the extent to which this understanding is also well understood by children and so clearly articulated by them. We hope the sharing of evidence from children in this study can lead to more in-depth insights on younger Pacific children's hitherto largely ignored perspectives, complementing the work already done with older Pacific youth (Lee 2019).…”

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confidence: 80%

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Kinship and belonging: Pacific children’s perspectives on the diaspora

et al. 2022

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Our study with 71 children aged 6-14 living in New Zealand and Samoa, provides a new child-centred perspective on transnational diasporic families. We use the Pacific concept vā to frame the study, in which children’s transnational-kinship connections reflect relational rather than physical approaches to space. Familial habitus surpasses spatial habitus as children’s primary reference point. For diasporic children, family keeps alive their sense of Pacific Island belonging. Transnational kinship ties give Pacific children additional resilience in adapting to unknown futures.

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“…Auckland has a Pacific Island population of 194,000 including 118,403 Samoans and 62,403 Tongans (Auckland Council, 2019). Many diasporic young people are also negotiating multi-ethnic identities (Lee and Craney, 2019).…”

Section: The Pacific Island Contextmentioning

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Kinship and belonging: Pacific children’s perspectives on the diaspora

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“…In Oceania, these terms are socially defined and enacted; they do not adhere to fixed parameters such as age, although policy documents label youth as being 'between 15 and 34 years of age' in Solomon Islands (Government of Solomon Islands, 2017: 14) and 'between the ages of 15 and 35' in Fiji (Government of Fiji, 2012: 3). As Lee and Craney (2019: 2) articulate, youthhood is most accurately determined by cultural values that 'often mean that youth are understood to be those who are not yet married with children or in positions of authority. Simply being of a certain age or occupying "adult" roles, such as being in paid employment, is not always enough to be considered fully adult'.…”

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Fault lines for unrest in the Pacific: Youth, livelihoods and land rights in driving and mitigating conflict

Craney¹

2021

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Instances of civil unrest and disorder have pockmarked the mainly peaceful functioning of multiple Pacific states in recent decades. This paper examines factors which can be seen as fault lines for predicting and mitigating such unrest, with a particular focus on Fiji and Solomon Islands. Drawing on data collected through interviews with youth advocates and activists, it becomes clear that the common justification of ‘ethnic tensions’ for past unrest and fears of future unrest being necessitated by a ‘youth bulge’ oversimplifies the complexity of factors that lead to disorder. Issues of land rights, uncertain livelihood futures and public perceptions of inequality provide more salient framings for understanding why citizens engage in unrest. Indeed, it is perceptions of injustice and inequality which may well prove to be the greater indicator of the likelihood of any future destabilisation.

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“…The family and proximity of extended family in most Pacific Island children's lives, school and local community spaces provide this secure base. To reiterate as Lee and Craney (2019) state, Pacific Island life revolves around the 'home, school and the church' (temple/mosque for Indo-Fijian children). The centrality of these three features was well evidenced across the children's maps.…”

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Pacific Island children: The use of maps in helping better understand children's lives

Freeman

Niusulu

Ergler

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Children's voices have been little heard in the Pacific research. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 asserts the child's right to have a say on matters that affect them and for their views to be considered. There has been massive growth in technologically assisted participative research; however, we argue the value of hand drawn maps should not be underestimated in the rush to engage with more advanced techniques. We present data from 267 neighbourhood maps drawn by children in Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa and New Zealand. To better understand the social construction of knowledge in children's everyday lives, we propose two models to conceptualise the complexity of their world, a social connection and a spatial connection model. These models reveal how Pacific Island children negotiate different levels of social connection from home, family, and community through to transnational kinship relations. People, specifically family, provide the geographic basis on which their spatial encounters are overlaid. Irrespective of country or rural/urban/atoll setting, it is social space that is the strongest connector for children as displayed in their maps. Application of our models can be used to reveal how knowledge is socially constructed in Pacific children's everyday lives.

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Pacific Youth, Local and Global

Cited by 6 publications

References 48 publications

Kinship and belonging: Pacific children’s perspectives on the diaspora

Kinship and belonging: Pacific children’s perspectives on the diaspora

Fault lines for unrest in the Pacific: Youth, livelihoods and land rights in driving and mitigating conflict

Pacific Island children: The use of maps in helping better understand children's lives

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