Flexibility, Possibility and the Paradoxes of the Present: Tongan Youth Moving into the Future

Good, Mary K.

doi:10.22459/py.2019.02

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“…An alternative approach to job-seeker training has emerged in recent years, with significant investment made through government and NGOs in Fiji and Solomon Islands in providing youth with entrepreneurial skills. 10 This is a trend seen throughout the region, as noted by Good (2019) in Tonga. The justification for this focus is summarised by Mia Rimon, Solomon Islands Country Director for the SPC, with reference to the self-employment stream of Youth@Work:…”

Section: Institutional Responses To Unemploymentmentioning

confidence: 80%

“…A central and recurrent theme in the literature and discovered through my own research is the concept that youth are to be seen but not heard. Passivity is considered a desirable trait of youth in Oceania (Baba 2014;Good 2019;Lee 2019a;McMurray 2006;Vakaoti 2012)-something that is steeped in concepts of tradition and signifying respect. Young people are not encouraged to be outspoken or to ask questions; their role is to learn from observation and example, and to do as they are instructed.…”

Section: Structural Minimisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement

Craney¹

2022

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YOUTH IN FIJI AND SOLOMON ISLANDSxiv essentialisation of each issue and the failure of interventions to go beyond paper commitments. This was how the seeds were planted for my decision to formally research youth livelihoods, leadership and civic engagement in Oceania. It was also where I first began to form my conceptual framework for understanding these issues through a 'holistic livelihoods' approach and to develop the contention that young Pacific peoples' lives are marked by their 'structural minimisation'-two concepts that I discuss further in the book proper.1 Also known as Fiji Baat (Willans and Prasad 2021).

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Section: Institutional Responses To Unemploymentmentioning

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Section: Structural Minimisationmentioning

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Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement

Craney¹

2022

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“…As Gershon explains; the Pacific is not just a ‘sea of islands but a sea of families’ (2007). Good (2019) contends that Tonga has “self-consciously constructed itself as a globally connected nation” (p. 53). Lee (2011) in her study of Tongan young people describes them as having transnational rather than migrant identities.…”

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Kinship and belonging: Pacific children’s perspectives on the diaspora

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Our study with 71 children aged 6-14 living in New Zealand and Samoa, provides a new child-centred perspective on transnational diasporic families. We use the Pacific concept vā to frame the study, in which children’s transnational-kinship connections reflect relational rather than physical approaches to space. Familial habitus surpasses spatial habitus as children’s primary reference point. For diasporic children, family keeps alive their sense of Pacific Island belonging. Transnational kinship ties give Pacific children additional resilience in adapting to unknown futures.

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Sahrawi Student Mobilities: Exile Routes Among Young Refugees

Reis

2020

L’Ouest Saharien

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En raison de la non-décolonisation du Sahara occidental, une partie des Sahraouis vivent en exil depuis 1975. Parallèlement à la lutte pour le droit à l’autodétermination, les Sahraouis ont donné la priorité à l’éducation en construisant des écoles et en menant des campagnes d’alphabétisation dans les camps de réfugiés (Algérie). Par conséquent, des protocoles entre la RASD en exil et des pays tiers ont été établis et des milliers d’étudiants quittent les camps de réfugiés chaque année pour poursuivre leurs études à l’étranger, créant un modèle « d’éducation transnationale » (Chatty et al. 2010). Devenues transgénérationnelles (Fiddian-Qasmiyeh 2015), cet article soutient que, par rapport aux autres programmes de mobilité, les migrations d’étudiants sont les plus longues migrations sahraouies loin du foyer. La « temporalité ambivalente de l’’entre-temps’ » (Solana 2016) a transformé les migrations de ces étudiants et, avec eux, la société sahraouie exilée. Sur la base d’une recherche ethnographique doctorale de longue durée en Espagne et en Algérie, j’analyse les conséquences et les caractéristiques – individuelles et collectives – des étudiants sahraouis à l’étranger, ainsi que leurs perspectives d’avenir (Koselleck 1979 ; Bryant et Knight 2019), en observant comment les « circuits de mobilité humaine » (Lindquist 2009: 7) sont perçus dans le contexte de l’exil.

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Flexibility, Possibility and the Paradoxes of the Present: Tongan Youth Moving into the Future

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement

Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement

Kinship and belonging: Pacific children’s perspectives on the diaspora

Sahrawi Student Mobilities: Exile Routes Among Young Refugees

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