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INVISIBLE ISLANDERS: PRECARIOUS WORK AND PACIFIC SETTLERS IN RURAL AUSTRALIA
Get PDFA growing number of studies have focused on precarious employment in relation to temporary and illegal immigration status. However, few have examined if this precarity is resolved once migrants acquire permanent residency. This article explores the work experiences of Pacific Islander settlers in rural Australia who either overstayed their visas or had temporary visas and later acquired Australian residency. These Pacific people are employed primarily in seasonal labor and find it difficult to gain more secure employment outside the horticultural sector. Even members of the second generation tend to work as casual laborers on farms. The difficulties migrants face in acquiring more stable jobs and their concerns about their children’s futures demonstrate the ongoing impacts of initial immigration statuses. We argue that Pacific settlers are “invisible” in ways that exacerbate their precarious situation and that they have been largely neglected in rural migration studies and policymaking in rural areas
HOW THE TĀ-VĀ THEORY OF REALITY CONSTRUCTS A SPATIAL EXPOSITION OF SAMOAN ARCHITECTURE
Get PDFThis essay deals with a spatial exposition of Hufanga ʻOkusitino Māhina theory of tā-vā in which I argue that traditional Pacific concepts are recharged and extended by Māhina to create a new branch in Pacific Thought. I show that there is a consistency in the tā-vā theory of reality if one were to diagram its main tenets and, by doing so, enables the exposition of parts that sketch-out an overall form of theory. I also argue that doing theory is important to Pacific Thought because it allows for traditions and customs to be coiled-up into concepts allowing them to be carried in a “tool box” as theory, then unpack, operate, and perform with them when required. In this way, Pacific concepts and ideas are important as tools to be used in new places and situations allowing our lived traditions to produce new ideas and concepts
CONCEPTS OF TĀ-VĀ (TIME-SPACE) IN THE ART PRACTICE OF SAMOA-AOTEAROA ARTIST SHIGEYUKI KIHARA
Get PDFMy paper considers concepts of tā-vā (time-space theory of reality) in the interdisciplinary art practice of Pacific Islander Shigeyuki Kihara, whose art is internationally acclaimed for its beauty, social criticism, and Moana identity linked to ties of community. With creative examples, I explore how Kihara’s constructions of tā-vā (a) reclaim Samoan histories and identities by subverting western fantasies of “dusky maidens” and a timeless South Seas Paradise; (b) challenge western binary norms of heterosexuality and gender from the traditional space (vā) she occupies as a fa‘afafine; and (c) embody Samoan deities to honor Moana spirituality and epistemologies. I further discuss ways Kihara positions her vā as fa‘afafine to maintain positive relations to her Samoan community and her international circle of artist colleagues through the Moana-Samoan practice of teu le vā—meaning caring for or beautifying social spaces now threatened by global forces commoditizing the arts and cultures of Oceania
Vol. 40 No. 1/2 (2017): Pacific Studies Full Issue
Get PDFPacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and publication. The Center cooperates with other scholarly and research institutions in achieving their objectives. It publishes monographs, produces films, underwrites research, and sponsors conferences on the Pacific Islands. Articles submitted to the editor must not be submitted elsewhere while under review by Pacific Studies. Please note that text files should be in Microsoft Word format and should be completely double-spaced (including quotations, references, and notes). Please submit manuscripts to [email protected]. Authors may visit our website, http://academics.byuh.edu/the_pacific_institute/home, for Instructions to Authors. Books for review should be sent to the editor
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