Small Worlds, Global Lives

Islands and Migration

By: Russell King

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Hardcover | 1 October 1999 | Edition Number 1

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As "small worlds", where resources are often stretched, islands have had an intense experience of migration. For many small islands in a global era, migration represents a dialogue between different places, some urban, some rural. This book examines diverse facets of migration out of and into a variety of islands, from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific. It traces the way in which migration is of crucial importance, for demography, economics, culture, indeed the whole of island life and identity; it contrasts with the reality of emigration and the rhetoric of return. Topics explored include include migration and environmental change, language shifts, remittances, retirement migration, post-colonial identities and islanders on the Internet. The evidence shows that migration emerges our of islanders' needs, but inevitably transforms insular societies, changing values and expectations, yet rarely if ever contributing to a situation where it is no longer necessary.

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Contributors	p. vii
List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. x
Island Migration in a Changing World	p. 1
From the Periphery of the Periphery: Historical, Cultural and Literary Perspectives on Emigration from the Minor Islands of Ireland	p. 27
The Azores: Between Europe and North America	p. 55
Emigration and Demography in Cape Verde: Escaping the Malthusian Trap	p. 77
Insiders and Outsiders: The Role of Insularity, Migration and Modernity on Grand Manan, New Brunswick	p. 95
Migration as a Way of Life: Nevis and the Post-war Labour Movement to Britain	p. 115
The Breath of 'The Beast': Migration, Volcanic Disaster, Place and Identity in Montserrat	p. 137
Caribbean Migration: Motivation and Choice of Destination in West Indian Literature	p. 161
Between the Devil and a Warm Blue Sea: Islands and the Migration Experience in the Fiction of Jamaica Kincaid	p. 177
'My Island Home': The Politics and Poetics of the Torres Strait	p. 195
Speaking of Norfolk Island: From Dystopia to Utopia?	p. 213
Islanders in Space: Tongans Online	p. 235
Spatial Population Mobility as Social Interaction: A Fijian Island's Multi-local Village Community	p. 255
The Changing Contours of Migrant Samoan Kinship	p. 277
Islands as Havens for Retirement Migration: Finding a Place in Sunny Corfu	p. 297
Index	p. 321
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