The pacific islands labour trade: Approaches, methodologies, debates

Munro, Doug

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“…These people became known as "South Sea Islanders," and their movement to Australia was by both voluntary and non-voluntary means (Connell 2010). In their dealings with Islands' populations, Europeans exploited their political advantages using jwsr.pitt.edu | DOI 10.5195/JWSR.2024.1203 unequal, dishonest, and coercive methods to impose work exploitation and cultural suppression 1 (Docker 1970;Munro 1993;Moore 1997) for both men and women (Jolly 1987). During recruitments, interethnic struggles between different Islanders influenced patterns of both migration and the abduction of people (Corris 1970).…”

Section: Global Coloniality and Landscape Modificationmentioning

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Cultural Seascapes, Regional Connections, and Colonial Powers in the Southwestern Pacific

Tiapa

2024

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Between the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, Australia and the islands of the southwestern Pacific were the setting of a wide context of encounters between Europeans and Indigenous peoples, in regions that could be perceived as disconnected at a first glance. However, it was part of a wider project of colonization that overlapped on a not less wide set of Indigenous networks of interconnection. Such a colonial project had landscape modification as a main common goal, added to projects of ethnic and cultural separation and segregation. This article suggests an approach to cultural seascapes as an approach to power relations between European colonizers and Indigenous people in this region. I suggest that this level of analysis allows to connect realities that could be perceived as disparate, but which were coherent with global projects of imposition of colonial identities according to a dominant global matrix of power. I aim to highlight the value of local spaces of interconnection as expressions of wider realities, approachable throughout the analysis of cultural seascapes as mobile spaces of power relations.

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Cultural Seascapes, Regional Connections, and Colonial Powers in the Southwestern Pacific

Tiapa

2024

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“…This is a particularly fraught question in the context of Fijian and Solomon Islander communities. While there are long histories of subsistence living in both countries (Barrau 1958), they also have complicated colonial legacies resulting from indentured/slave labour (Ali 1979;Connell 2010;Hunt 2007;Moynagh 1981;Munro 1993) and the division of ethnicities in plantation labour. The impacts these histories have had on different individuals and communities, in terms of their mental models of what employment represents, are difficult to establish.…”

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Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement

Craney¹

2022

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YOUTH IN FIJI AND SOLOMON ISLANDSxiv essentialisation of each issue and the failure of interventions to go beyond paper commitments. This was how the seeds were planted for my decision to formally research youth livelihoods, leadership and civic engagement in Oceania. It was also where I first began to form my conceptual framework for understanding these issues through a 'holistic livelihoods' approach and to develop the contention that young Pacific peoples' lives are marked by their 'structural minimisation'-two concepts that I discuss further in the book proper.1 Also known as Fiji Baat (Willans and Prasad 2021).

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“…While some of these movements were voluntary, the forced migration of ‘blackbirding’ was a 19th and early 20th century practice of enslaving Pacific Islanders onto plantation work (Mortensen, 2000). In the late 19th and early 20th century, the Pacific Island region also experienced an influx of new migrants from Asia, particularly indentured labourers from India and China (Munro, 1993) as well as small traders and unskilled workers from different Asian countries (Crocombe, 1973). Europeans increasingly entered the region in the early 19th century, mainly to extract resources and profits from whaling and trade or in the context of participating in missionary activities.…”

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Representing and evaluating the travel motivations of Pacific islanders

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Journal of Tourism Research

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The mobility patterns and travel motivations of Pacific Islanders have largely been neglected by discourses and discussions on Asia-Pacific tourism. To examine the travel preferences and travel motivations of Pacific Islanders, we administered surveys (n = 1100) across the five Pacific Island States and Territories of Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa and Solomon Islands. The research offers a comparative analysis across national boundaries by highlighting commonalities and differences among the five groups. Family, kinship and religious dimensions stand out as shared and crucial factors influencing travel preferences and travel motivations across the region. Nonetheless, the research identified differences between the Pacific communities which can be explained with each country's level of socioeconomic development, political structure, geography, cultural context and globalisation. The study advances knowledge on the mobilities and travel motivations of non-Western tourists by conceptualising the Pacific Islands from the perspective of a tourism-generating region.

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The pacific islands labour trade: Approaches, methodologies, debates

Cited by 11 publications

References 22 publications

Cultural Seascapes, Regional Connections, and Colonial Powers in the Southwestern Pacific

Cultural Seascapes, Regional Connections, and Colonial Powers in the Southwestern Pacific

Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement

Representing and evaluating the travel motivations of Pacific islanders

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