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Mobilities Of Return : Pacific Perspectives
Paperback Edition: 1
In recent decades, the term mobility has emerged as a defining paradigm within the humanities. For scholars engaged in the multidisciplinary topics and perspectives now often embraced by the term Pacific Studies, it has been a much more longstanding and persistent concern. Even so, specific
questions regarding mobilities of return (that is, the movement of people back to places that are designated, however ambiguously or ambivalently, as home) have tended to take a back seat within more recent discussions of mobility, transnationalism and migration.
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This volume situates return mobility as a starting point for understanding the broader context and experience of human mobility, community and identity in the Pacific region and beyond. Through diverse case studies spanning the Pacific region, it demonstrates the extent to which the prospect and practice of returning home, or of navigating returns between multiple homes, is a central rather than peripheral component of contemporary Pacific Islander mobilities and identities everywhere.
Featured in the 9 January 2018 New Zealand / Pasifika Newsletter.
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Pages : 215
Publisher : ANU Press
Publication date : 2017
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in Australia, Pasifika, Pacific Art And Crafts