Trade agreements, labour mobility and climate change in the Pacific Islands

Weber, Eberhard

doi:10.1007/s10113-016-1047-7

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“…The importance of livelihood diversification to reducing vulnerability figures very prominently in the concept of resilience to the impacts of climate change and natural hazards (Ajak, 2018;Jurjonas & Seekamp, 2018), as well as in the "Sustainable Livelihood Approaches", which are, however, often lacking theoretical depth (De Haan & Zoomers, 2005). In one way or another all of the approaches mentioned above take up the notion of 'translocality' and relate it to people's search for wellbeing and security (Carmo & Hedberg, 2018;Etzold & Sakdapolrak, 2016;Islam & Herbeck, 2013;Keck & Sakdapolrak, 2013;Rockenbauch & Sakdapolrak, 2017;Sakdapolrak et al, 2016;Steinbrink, 2009;Weber, 2017). To reach common ground across many disciplines and details, translocality can be seen as referring to the structures and processes in which mobile people "are locally grounded and where transnational ties are regulated and institutionalized" (Stephan-Emmrich & Schröder, 2018, p. 28).…”

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“…Around the same time beachcomber communities were established where individual Europeans integrated into local communities, and "went native" (Bargatzky, 1980;Campbell, 1998;Milcairns, 2006;Ralston, 1977). Urbanisation in a more comprehensive way stepped up when more and more Europeans, many of them coming through Australia and New Zealand, settled in the Pacific Islands to establish trade relationships (Weber, 2017). Individuals, first living with indigenous inhabitants and later operating from port towns, started trading with the extraction of sandalwood, bêche-de-mer, turtle shells, pearls, and other exotic commodities (Ralston, 1971).…”

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Moving to dangerous places

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Kissoon²,

Koto³

2019

Dealing With Climate Change on Small Islands: Towards Effective and Sustainable Adaptation

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Mobility is an important part of the discourses around climate change. Many argue that mobility in connection to climate change, natural hazards, or similar is about bringing people to safety, supporting them in their own efforts to reach safe grounds, or as McAdam (2015) puts it: taking people away from "danger zones". This chapter investigates mobility of people living in informal settlements in Suva, the capital of Fiji, which are exposed to hazards. This chapter, hence concentrates on people moving to highly exposed areas. How can we explain when people move to 'danger zones' like is happening in many informal settlements in the Pacific Islands (and surely elsewhere)? Are people not aware that the locations are dangerous, do they not bother to find out, or do they consciously choose such 'danger zones'? For our study, we undertook interviews and observations in two informal settlements in Suva. Our research suggests that the two locations where people established informal settlements were chosen at least in part because of their unfavourable environmental conditions. Whether this occurred consciously or more in a reflexive learning process that directed people to locations where they did not face evictions needs to be established in future research. It is becoming evident, however, that in Suva space is becoming scarce. Locations that nobody was interested in several decades ago are now in high demand. This also puts people who live in informal settlements at risk of being evicted by governments' plans of relocation and/or by market forces, which can be seen as a special form of gentrification.

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Moving to dangerous places

Weber¹,

Kissoon²,

Koto³

2019

Dealing With Climate Change on Small Islands: Towards Effective and Sustainable Adaptation

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“…Rasmussen 2014;Connell and Lutkehaus 2017;Gibson and McKenzie 2014;Weber 2017;Birk 2012). Furthermore, large-scale, collective migration, as has been articulated and deconstructed for Kiribati, can be perceived as presenting opportunities to preserve cultural identity and social cohesion for those who migrate(Gagaeolo, Hemstock, and Price 2020;Hermann and Kempf 2017), while also benefitting those who stay behind(Abubakar and others 2018;Hermann and Kempf 2017;Birk and Rasmussen 2014;Connell and Lutkehaus 2017;Gibson and McKenzie 2014;Weber 2017).…”

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