Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands: State, Society and Governance in Melanesia

✍ Scribed by Firth, Stewart

Publisher: ANU Press
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 436
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Keynote Address -- From Neo-Liberalism to the New Medievalism; 2. Treading Water in Rapids? Non-Governmental Organisations and Resistance to Neo-Liberalism in Pacific Island States; Introduction; Global civil society challenges to neo-liberalism; Neo-liberal reform and civil society resistance in the Pacific region; Recent NGO challenges to Pacific governments and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat; NGO constraints and challenges; References.

✦ Table of Contents

Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Keynote Address --
From Neo-Liberalism to the New Medievalism
2. Treading Water in Rapids? Non-Governmental Organisations and Resistance to Neo-Liberalism in Pacific Island States
Introduction
Global civil society challenges to neo-liberalism
Neo-liberal reform and civil society resistance in the Pacific region
Recent NGO challenges to Pacific governments and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
NGO constraints and challenges
References. 3. Regionalism and Cultural Identity: Putting the Pacific back into the planThe plan
The process
The content of the plan and culture
Making culture central to the plan: building on the past
The difficulties of integrating culture
Culture and regionalism: a strategy
Conclusion
References
Labour Migration
4. Migration, Dependency and Inequality in the Pacific: Old Wine in Bigger Bottles? (Part 1)
An economic context
A population context?
Internal migration
International migration
A rationale
Remittances. 5. Migration, Dependency and Inequality in the Pacific: Old Wine in Bigger Bottles? (Part 2)Selectivity and skilled migration
Outcome of skill loss
Return migration
A policy context?
Conclusion: the outward urge
References (Parts 1 and 2)
6. Globalisation, New Labour Migration and Development in Fiji
Introduction
Globalisation and transnational migration
Dimensions of international migration
International migration and development
Migration trends in Oceania
The changing nature of labour migration in Fiji
1. Mass immigration phase (1879-1920 and 1920-36). 2. Permanent labour migration phase (since 1970)3. Temporary labour migration phase (since the early 1990s)
Fiji's international peacekeeping
4. Contemporary immigration
Remittances in Fiji
Migration and development in Fiji
Conclusion
References
7. 'Tonga Only Wants Our Money': The children of Tongan migrants
The sustainability of remittances
Investigating second-generation transnationalism
Piloting the 'Tongan ties' project
More migration as a solution?
Conclusion
References
8. Labour Mobility in the Pacific: Creating seasonal work programs in Australia
Introduction. Remittances and Pacific developmentLabour mobility and trade negotiations
The growing importance of remittances
Case study: Iraq
Social impacts
Remittances and development
Modelling seasonal work schemes in Australia
Seasonal work and horticulture --
Australia and the world
Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Program
Labour mobility from the Pacific
Requirements for effective seasonal workers' schemes
Labour rights and working conditions
Recruitment and government regulation
Addressing social impacts on families
Information and community support.

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