Capturing the Wealth From Tuna: case stude's from the Pacific

Development and Negative Constructions of Ethnic Identity: Responses to Asian Fisheries Investment in the Pacific

“…Furthermore, the existence of anti-Asian sentiments in representations of fisheries investment should not be taken to mean that Papua New Guineans and Solomon Islanders only opposed the companies because they were Asian. White colonialism is within living memory, and Western multinational corporations are seen as equally likely to cause negative impacts (Barclay 2007).…”

“…1 Elsewhere I have explored this idea for Japanese, white, and Okinawan identities (Barclay 2006(Barclay , 2007.…”

“…Later research on rd Tuna revealed a similar pattern; while there were certainly grounds for complaint, the magnitude of the complaints often exceeded them. I have explored the main complaints and the evidence for them in previous publications (Barclay and Cartwright 2007;Barclay 2008). This is not to say that my preconception that the companies were bad corporate citizens was replaced by a belief that they were good corporate citizens.…”

“…However-and also because of the developing country status-the local population was seen as lacking the skills and knowledge for leading roles within the company, so the latter roles were filled by people from "more developed" countries, where remuneration expectations were correspondingly higher. And because working in a developing country is seen as a hardship post, they were paid even more (Barclay 2004;Barclay and Cartwright 2007). Positions of power and authority, as well as remuneration scales, therefore explicitly placed people (hierarchically) within national groupings.…”