The chapters in this volume canvass political change and development across the Pacific Islands from a variety of perspectives, each contributing to the analysis of a region growing in complexity and in confidence. They fall neatly into three sections: Oceania and its Inheritance; Oceania – Current Needs and Challenges; and Oceania and its Wider Setting. The new states of the Pacific have dem…
Migration; Population Economics; Political Science
intergenerational relations; transfer behaviour; migration; multicultural; religious identity; research methods; second generation
Protest mobilization and outcome; Political participation; Emotions and social ties; Deportation nation; Refugees; Pro-migrant protest; Anti-migrant protest
Migration; History, general; Cities, Countries, Regions; Demography
Migration; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Childhood, Adolescence and Society; Sociology, general
Migration; Knowledge - Discourse; Public Policy
Public administration of asylum applications in Europe; Determining refugee status in street-level bureaucracy; Individual-institution interaction; Institutional ethnography; Theory of social practices; Immigration in Europe
This book produces a major rethinking of the history of development after 1940 through an exploration of Britain’s ambitions for industrialisation in its Caribbean colonies. Industrial development is a neglected topic in histories of the British Colonial Empire, and we know very little of plans for Britain’s Caribbean colonies in general in the late colonial period, despite the role played …
This collection of essays examines the relatively new, and frequently overlooked, political phenomenon in post-colonial Africa of chieftaincy “re-inventing” itself. The traditional authority of chiefs has been one of Africa’s missing voices who are now bringing new resources to the challenges that AIDS, gender, governance, and development pose to the peoples of Africa. Reinventing African…