Small Worlds, Global LivesRussell King, John Connell Geologists, most from Australia and Britain but with some outliers from continental Europe and North America, focus on small islands, where the scarcity of people and resources make migration substantially important socially and economically. The topics include the Azores; historical, cultural, and literary perspectives on emigration from the minor islands of Ireland; Nevis and the post-war labor movement in Britain; islands and the migration experience in the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid; from dystopia to utopia on Norfolk Island; Tongans online; the changing contours of migrant Samoan kinship; and finding a retirement place in sunny Corfu. |
Contents
Between Europe and North America | 55 |
The Role of Insularity | 95 |
Nevis and the Postwar Labour | 115 |
Migration Volcanic Disaster Place | 137 |
Motivation and Choice of Destination | 161 |
Islands and | 177 |
The Politics and Poetics of the Torres Strait | 195 |
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