Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia: The New Blackbirds? Petrou Kirstie
Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia: The New Blackbirds? Petrou Kirstie This is the first book to examine the contemporary seasonal migration of Pacific Islanders to Australia through the…
Specifikacia Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia: The New Blackbirds? Petrou Kirstie
Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia: The New Blackbirds? Petrou Kirstie
This is the first book to examine the contemporary seasonal migration of Pacific Islanders to Australia through the Seasonal Worker Program (SWP). In so doing, it offers a critical perspective on different phases of managed labour migration from nineteenth century practices of 'blackbirding' to the present day. It reflects on this new age of guestwork from a broad social, economic, political and cultural perspective in both source countries and destinations.
It particularly focuses on Vanuatu, the main source of labour, and draws upon studies based in Australia, Vanuatu and other Pacific Island countries. This book examines why and how guestworker policies and programmes have developed, and the impact this has had in Australia and for the people, villages and islands of the sending states. The book therefore traces new patterns of migration, with intriguing economic and social
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