Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia: The New Blackbirds?

by John Connell and Kirstie Petrou

Book Overview

This is the first book to examine the contemporary seasonal migration of Pacific islanders to Australia through the Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP). It reflects on this new age of guestwork from a broad social, economic, political and cultural perspective in both source countries and destinations. In so doing, it offers a critical perspective on different phases of managed labour migration from nineteenth century practices of 'blackbirding' to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811953899
• ISBN13: 9789811953897
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 506 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"