Labour Lines and Colonial Power : Indigenous and Pacific Islander Labour Mobility in Australia.

Labour Lines and Colonial Power : Indigenous and Pacific Islander Labour Mobility in Australia.

"Today, increases of so-called 'low-skilled' and temporary labour migrations of Pacific Islanders to Australia occur alongside calls for Indigenous people to 'orbit' from remote communities in search of employment opportunities. These trends reflect the persistent neoliberal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stead, Victoria
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Altman, Jon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Canberra : ANU Press, 2019.
Series:Aboriginal History Monographs.
Subjects:
Aboriginal Australians > Employment.
Pacific Islanders > Employment.
Maori (New Zealand people) > Employment.
Aboriginal Australians > Economic conditions.
Pacific Islanders > Economic conditions.
Maori (New Zealand people) > Economic conditions.
Aboriginal Australians > Migrations.
Pacific Islanders > Migrations.
Maori (New Zealand people) > Migrations.
Labor market > Australia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Indigenous Studies.
Labor market.
Australia.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface ; Labour lines and colonial power / Victoria Stead and Jon Altman and#x2013; Intermediaries, servants and captives: disentangling indigenous labour in D.W. Carnegie’s exploration of the Western Australian Desert / Shino Konishi and#x2013; and#x2018;Boyd’s Blacks’: labour and the making of settler lands in Australia and the Pacific / Tracey Banivanua Mar and#x2013; A regulated labour trade across the Torres Strait: Papuan and New Guinean domestic workers in Australia / Lucy Davies and#x2013; New histories but old patterns: Kai Tahu in Australia / Rachel Standfield and Michael J. Stevens and#x2013; Money trees, development dreams and colonial legacies in contemporary Pasifika horticultural labor / Victoria Stead and#x2013; Becoming and#x2018;overstayers’: the coloniality of citizenship and the resilience of Pacific farm workers / Makiko Nishitani and Helen Lee and#x2013; Wellbeing perspectives, conceptualisations of work and labour mobility experiences of Pasifika Trans-Tasman migrants in Brisbane / Ruth (Lute) Faleolo and#x2013; Coloniality of power and the contours of contemporary sport industries: Fijians in Australia rugby / Scott Mackay and Daniel Guinness and#x2013; Emergent trends in indigenous labour mobility: flying to work in the nation’s quarry / Sarah Prout Quicke and Fiona Haslam McKenzie and#x2013; Mysterious motions: a genealogy of and#x2018;orbiting’ in Australian indigenous affairs / Timothy Neale and#x2013; Of pizza ovens in Arnhem Land: the state quest to restructure aboriginal labour in remotest Australia / Jon Altman and#x2013; An afterword / Lynette Russell.