If Everyone Returned, The Island Would Sink : : Urbanisation and Migration in Vanuatu / / Kirstie Petrou.
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 urbanisation and internal migration in the Global South. Based on longitudinal research undertaken in rural ‘home’ places, urban suburbs and informal...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (214 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Urbanisation and Migration
- 2 Subsistence Realities, Material Dreams
- 3 It’s Like We Live in Town Already
- 4 The Everyday Ordinariness of Mobility
- 5 I Just Came to Visit My Kin
- 6 Friends, Lovers and Stranger Danger
- 7 Living on Money
- Conclusion. Fluidity and Flexibility
- Glossary of Frequently Used Bislama Terms
- References
- Index