The big smallness of Tuvalu

Goldsmith, Michael

doi:10.3197/ge.2015.080107

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“…Research finding that voluntary migration brings benefits broadly supports framing of migration as a form of adaptation (IOM 2017). Recent research in Pacific SIDS has supported this position with evidence of migration providing remittances (Shen and Gemenne 2011), education and employment opportunities for young people (Goldsmith 2015) and being complementary to other adaptive measures (Ash and Campbell 2016). An alternative view is that such movements are not attempts at adaptation, so much as acts of survival whereby people are compelled to leave homes and families with implications for rights, livelihoods and physical, emotional and psychological health (Bettini 2014;Kelman et al 2015;Unicef 2017).…”

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confidence: 97%

Culture, climate change and mobility decisions in Pacific Small Island Developing States

Oakes

2019

Popul Environ

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The Pacific Small Island Developing States are often considered on the frontline of climate change due to high levels of exposure to climate-related hazards and limited adaptive capacity to respond. In this context, Pacific Islanders may be displaced, or choose to migrate to escape risk and find more secure livelihoods. On the other hand, Pacific political and community leaders stress that mobility can be a threat to sovereignty and culture and should only be considered as a last resort. This paper adopts a cultural ecology framing to gain a greater understanding of these contested local discourses on climate change and human mobility in Kiribati, Tuvalu and Nauru through the use of the Q method. The results reveal a range of shared subjective understandings of climate change and human mobility which show that reasons for, and perceived outcomes of moving are inextricably linked. These subjective understandings highlight that culture, and in particular how Islanders relate to land and religion can influence decision-making, promoting or hindering mobility. The findings therefore support the need for further engagement with communities to recognise and validate their positions on climate change and human mobility to facilitate the planning and implementation of effective policy.

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Culture, climate change and mobility decisions in Pacific Small Island Developing States

Oakes

2019

Popul Environ

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“…Migration has long been one response to constrained livelihoods and episodic crises. Islanders themselves and colonial and post‐colonial authorities long recognised migration and resettlement as a means of alleviating poverty and food insecurity, to the extent that migration constitutes everyday practice (Farbotko and Lazrus, ), and MIRAB represent a valuable and ‘virtuous circle’ (Goldsmith, ). Formal resettlement schemes were sometimes put in place, while islanders developed their own strategies for migration and resettlement.…”

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“…Disappearing islands and people – climatic refugees – are emotional matters, drawn on by NGOs and journalists, because of the drama, the perceived need for global responses through prevention and mitigation and their portents for the future. It has even been said of Tuvalu that ‘its usefulness exists only in its disappearance’ (Gemenne, : 97; see Goldsmith, ). In the CI, where environmental degradation is problematic, migration opportunities are few and climate change is seemingly visible, climate change provides a moral context that might shape a desired diasporic future.…”

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Last days in the Carteret Islands? Climate change, livelihoods and migration on coral atolls

Connell

2016

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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It is widely assumed that the impacts of climate change on atolls will render them uninhabitable. The Carteret Islands, an iconic Pacific atoll, is experiencing physical changes, documented in the media, the outcome of multiple factors, alongside critical economic livelihood problems. Its population has sought to resettle on nearby Bougainville Island, but land has not become available. The search for migration opportunities parallels trends on coral atolls elsewhere where survival strategies have involved regional and international ties, with cultures of migration, focused on more distant international destinations. Carteret Islanders have not been able to mobilise similar relationships. For many atolls and atoll states, migration has increasingly become a livelihood strategy, irrespective of climate change. That is likely to become even more true in the future, but the outcome will be dependent on policies and practices in metropolitan destination states.

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“…In this article, I contribute to the emerging body of scholarship on the experience of coastal erosion and environmental displacement along select shores of Asia, the Arctic, and Pacific island states (see, e.g., Goldsmith ; Harms ; Marino ; Mathur ). Here I take issue with the global fame of select islands and their dwellers.…”

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Filming sea‐level rise: media encounters and memory work in the Indian Sundarbans

Harms

2018

Royal Anthropological Inst

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In this article, I discuss social consequences of the visualization of climate change. I focus on encounters between film crews and displaced islanders on rapidly eroding islands at the sea‐facing edge of the Indian Sundarbans. As these islands have become the epitome of global environmental damage and dystopian futures, film crews regularly travel here to produce captivating footage on degradation and displacement. I first situate the ensuing encounters in global regimes of visibility and infrastructural possibilities. Building on that, I argue that these encounters set forth what I call unintentional memory work. By virtue of being a spectacle, by enabling a return to the film subjects’ former homes, and by staging acts of remembering, film teams unintentionally induce a reworking of memories and, at times, the production of new memories. In both instances, particular pasts are prioritized and imbued with a sense of urgency and relevance to foreign film teams and global audiences. I frame these media encounters as interfaces through which global anxieties about Anthropocene futures become implicated in the fashioning of selves on remote shores.

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The big smallness of Tuvalu

Cited by 10 publications

References 10 publications

Culture, climate change and mobility decisions in Pacific Small Island Developing States

Culture, climate change and mobility decisions in Pacific Small Island Developing States

Last days in the Carteret Islands? Climate change, livelihoods and migration on coral atolls

Filming sea‐level rise: media encounters and memory work in the Indian Sundarbans

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