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Book Chapter
Mobility and Economic Resilience in Melanesia
2014
Overview
Migration is a normal and common human occurrence. Moving to seek new opportunities, new lands, new freedoms, fleeing persecution or economic stagnation is a phenomenon that has shaped and continues to shape human societies across the world. Migration from rural to urban centres is certainly a feature of the modern nation-state, with economic and other shocks sometimes playing an important role in the decision to move. Household shocks are an increasingly important feature of Melanesian life. They include idiosyncratic shocks (specific to the household) such as the loss of a garden to flooding or the death or illness of a household member as well as covariate (or community wide) shocks such as large natural disasters and price hikes of commodities that households have become dependent upon
Publisher
Routledge,Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN
9781138276697, 9781472419194, 1138276693, 1472419197
