If Everyone Returned, The Island Would Sink : : Urbanisation and Migration in Vanuatu / / Kirstie Petrou.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Petrou, Kirstie,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789206227; 9783110997699
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789206227?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kirstie Petrou.

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.