Public and Private Views of Home: Will Western Samoan Migrants Return?

Macpherson, C. B.

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“…Some return disappointed with a past of unfulfilled prospects and lack of confidence for a future 'back home', though they invariably foster or reinforce the continuation of long-held migration and circulation traditions. Ultimately there is a sharp ß Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishers Ltd 2000 contrast between public and private views of home, between public affection and private concern, between the rhetoric of return and the reality of emigration, so that even land purchases and extended periods of substantial remittances cannot be regarded as a commitment to return (Macpherson, 1985). Both remittances and return migration simultaneously conserve societies through emphasizing historic structures of land tenure and dissolve social economies through stimulating economic change and the transformation in tastes.…”

Section: Fixed Location-specific Capital Venturesmentioning

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Migration and remittances in island microstates: a comparative perspective on the South Pacific and the Caribbean

Connell

Conway

2000

Int J Urban Regional Res

132

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For several decades there has been extensive migration from the small island states of the South Pacific and the eastern Caribbean to metropolitan countries, resulting in absolute population decline in some states and new social, economic and political relationships between these island regions and distant worlds. Early research on the consequences for island development of return migration and remittances dwelt upon the unproductive nature of expenditures and the various problems return migration and remittances cause. Questioning this view, a new conceptualization of the influences of migration, circulation and remittances on recipient families, communities and societies in the island states of the South Pacific and the Caribbean is presented. Regional similarities and differences are recognized, yet commonalities of island microstates' experiences emerge. Remittances are a very significant private transfer of capital and return migrants represent people endowed with human capital, capable of enriching the social and cultural capital stocks of their island communities. In both insular regions, the consolidation of transnational linkages emphasizes the significance of diaspora relations for migrant households at home and abroad and offers some prospects for sustainable development, beyond those offered solely by domestic economic opportunities. Copyright Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishers Ltd 2000.

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Migration and remittances in island microstates: a comparative perspective on the South Pacific and the Caribbean

Connell

Conway

2000

Int J Urban Regional Res

132

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“…Studies by Connell [1984], Hayes [1985], Macpherson [1985], Ahlburg and Levin [1990], and Ahlburg [1994] indicate that the amount of return migration to the Pacific is small, so that the potential for the transfer of human capital seems rather limited. This is not to say that a numerically small number of individuals cannot have an economic impact that is disproportionately large given their small numbers.…”

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Migrants’ intentions to return home and capital transfers: A study of Tongans and Samoans in Australia

Ahlburg

Brown

1998

Journal of Development Studies

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“…He observed that those who do return often have problems readjusting and tend to remain in urban areas. Macpherson (1985) also noted problems of readjustment for the few Samoans who return, particularly younger people who had spent most of their lives overseas. He argues that the low rate of return is due to migrants' desire to remain near their adult children and their families overseas and financial considerations such as lack of jobs and low wages.…”

Section: Return Migrationmentioning

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Migration and Transnationalism

Martiniello

2010

Globalization East and West

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Her research uses Tongan textiles and gift exchange to analyse Tongan women's agency and their communities' ethnic identities in Auckland, New Zealand, and Oakland, California. She teaches courses on the anthropology of art and material culture, multiculturalism, and ethnic expression and has managed a community arts project with Tongan textile artists in Oakland. She has published in the areas of transnationalism, Tongan exchange, ethnicity, and the political economy of contemporary diaspora. Ping-Ann is ethnic Chinese and Ghanaian, and hails from Trinidad and Tobago.

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Public and Private Views of Home: Will Western Samoan Migrants Return?

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Migration and remittances in island microstates: a comparative perspective on the South Pacific and the Caribbean

Migration and remittances in island microstates: a comparative perspective on the South Pacific and the Caribbean

Migrants’ intentions to return home and capital transfers: A study of Tongans and Samoans in Australia

Migration and Transnationalism

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