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- Title
Migration and Social Transformation in the Contemporary Pacific.
- Authors
Macpherson, Cluny
- Abstract
The article discusses the pattern of migration and social transformation in the contemporary pacific. It is stated that the exploration and settlement of the Pacific by the Austronesian people and their descendants were important because human populations brought the flora, fauna, and technology which established the bases of the unique ecosystems and societies which developed in various parts of Oceania. Moreover, the Pacific people moved as they became increasingly involved in missionary activity as migrant laborers in plantations in the Islands and in Australia.
- Subjects
PACIFIC Area; EMIGRATION &; immigration; GEOGRAPHICAL discoveries; AUSTRONESIAN languages; PLANTATION life; HUMAN ecology; TECHNOLOGICAL progress; QUALITY of life; SOCIETIES
- Publication
New Zealand Sociology, 2008, Vol 23, Issue 1, p30
- ISSN
0112-921X
- Publication type
Article