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
Other Authors: Altman, Jon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Canberra ANU Press 2019, 2019
Series:Aboriginal History Monographs
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preface ; Labour lines and colonial power / Victoria Stead and Jon Altman - Intermediaries, servants and captives: disentangling Indigenous labour in D.W. Carnegie's exploration of the Western Australian Desert / Shino Konishi - 'Boyd's Blacks': labour and the making of settler lands in Australia and the Pacific / Tracey Banivanua Mar - A regulated labour trade across the Torres Strait: Papuan and New Guinean domestic workers in Australia / Lucy Davies - New histories but old patterns: Kai Tahu in Australia / Rachel Standfield and Michael J. Stevens - Money trees, development dreams and colonial legacies in contemporary Pasifika horticultural labor / Victoria Stead - Becoming 'overstayers': the coloniality of citizenship and the resilience of Pacific farm workers / Makiko Nishitani and Helen Lee - Wellbeing perspectives, conceptualisations of work and labour mobility experiences of Pasifika Trans-Tasman migrants in Brisbane / Ruth (Lute) Faleolo - Coloniality of power and the contours of contemporary sport industries: Fijians in Australia rugby / Scott Mackay and Daniel Guinness - Emergent trends in Indigenous labour mobility: flying to work in the nation's quarry / Sarah Prout Quicke and Fiona Haslam McKenzie - Mysterious motions: a genealogy of 'orbiting' in Australian Indigenous affairs / Timothy Neale - Of pizza ovens in Arnhem Land: the state quest to restructure Aboriginal labour in remotest Australia / Jon Altman - An afterword / Lynette Russell