Migrants, Labourers and Landowners at the Lihir Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea

Bainton, Nicholas

doi:10.22459/lmlp.10.2017.11

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“…In terms of total numbers, the scale of in‐migration in Lihir has not matched the level of in‐migration observed at Porgera or the rates predicted for the Wafi‐Golpu or Frieda River projects (Banks & Jackson, ). But the contained geography of this island setting has amplified and intensified the social impacts and demographic pressures related to the flow of people seeking new economic opportunities (Bainton, ).…”

Section: Four Mines In Four Settingsmentioning

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Land and access: A framework for analysing mining, migration and development in Melanesia

Bainton

Banks

2018

Sustainable Development

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In this paper we propose that we can best make sense of mining‐induced in‐migration in Melanesia through the dual frame of “land” and “access”, which can both be seen as a type of “capital” or “asset” in the way that Anthony Bebbington used these terms in his well‐known “capitals and capabilities” framework for analysing rural livelihoods. The concept of land provides a useful point of entry for understanding the relationship between mining, migration and development in this setting. We argue that if land is central to the making of social relations in Melanesia (that land is a social relation), then mining changes the meaning and values that can flow from land, and these changes induce manoeuvres on the part of residents and in‐migrants as they attempt to control or become part of the social relations that constitute land in order to access the development benefits derived from mining activities. In the end, these actions remake place, and irrevocably reshape relationships and senses of place that precede mining.

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Section: Four Mines In Four Settingsmentioning

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Land and access: A framework for analysing mining, migration and development in Melanesia

Bainton

Banks

2018

Sustainable Development

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“…These findings have strengthened the results of previous research from [65] as happened in the Switzerland country. Migrants and non-migrants (indigenous people) in the areas of Nitibe have shown evidence that they are experiencing uneven development "metageography", un-sustainable development, due to the geographical position as an enclave, especially in the social dimension measured from the low value of the proportion of primary and senior secondary education, and the low literacy as stated by Sidaway (2007) in Bainton [66].…”

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The comparative analysis of TL-SDI values, within the area of administrative posts in the municipality of oecusse

2020

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This research aims to analyze and compare value of TL-SDI, within area of administrative posts in the municipality of Oecusse related to internal migration status. This study uses a quantitative approach based on the CPH-TL 2015 and TLSLS 2014 data, using lifetime migration that applied on the concept of TL-SDI, SCI, EcCI, and EnCI within area of administrative posts in the municipality of Oecusse. Analysis comparison of TL-SDI uses CSpro, SPSS, and Excel, tools with the amount of sustainable development indexes is the percentage of migration rates. The results of this study have produced three (3) type of specific values of TL-SDI, rejected the hypothesis that there is no significance the values of TL-SDI between the migrant population and the non-migrant population. The TL-SDI values in migrant populations are higher than in non-migrant populations. TL-SDI values in each region can be used as an evaluation of the results of development so far has been running and can be used as regional planning material, especially for indigenous people or migrants who come to the region.

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“…This rural-to-urban migration has meant that in some coastal communities where fishing is a major livelihood, remittances from urban centres (e.g., Port Moresby) are significant-although this is variable (Carrier, 1981;Hayes, 1993;Vieira et al, 2017). In recent decades, in addition to well-established forms of rural-to-urban migration, internal migration has often been characterised by people moving towards large-scale resource extraction projects such as mines (Bainton, 2017) or agricultural plantations (Curry & Koczberski, 1998). Unlike in the Philippines, fishing is rarely the main motivation for migration in coastal villages.…”

Section: Papua New Guineamentioning

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Responding to Global Change

Fabinyi

Barclay

2021

Asia-Pacific Fishing Livelihoods

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This chapter focuses on the wider processes of political-economic change that drive key characteristics of fishing livelihoods. Globalisation has dramatically expanded the scale and accelerated the pace of fisheries capture and trade, generating new opportunities and challenges for livelihoods and marine environments. Here we document some of the major characteristics of the history of fishing across the Asia-Pacific, before focusing on case studies of the Philippines and PNG. We highlight three related features of globalisation that have influenced fishing livelihoods and that continue to shape them today: migration, engagement with markets and new technologies, and interactions with other forms of economic activity, including those outside the fisheries sector.

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Migrants, Labourers and Landowners at the Lihir Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea

Cited by 14 publications

References 10 publications

Land and access: A framework for analysing mining, migration and development in Melanesia

Land and access: A framework for analysing mining, migration and development in Melanesia

The comparative analysis of TL-SDI values, within the area of administrative posts in the municipality of oecusse

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