TY  - BOOK
AU  - Petrou,Kirstie
TI  - If Everyone Returned, The Island Would Sink: Urbanisation and Migration in Vanuatu 
T2  - Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists
SN  - 9781789206210
AV  - HT149.V36 
U1  - 307.76099595 
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Migration, Internal
KW  - Vanuatu
KW  - Population geography
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Mobility Studies, Refugee and Migration Studies
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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 settlements over thirty years, this book reveals the deep ambivalence of the outcome of migration, and argues that continuity in the fundamental organising principles of cultural life – in this case centred on kinship and an ‘island home’ – is significantly more important for urban and rural lives than the transformative impacts of migration and urbanisation
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789206227?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789206227
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789206227/original
ER  -