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Scapegoating juvenile ‘people smugglers’ from Indonesia: poverty, crime, and punishment

Missbach, Antje; Palmer, Wayne

Pacific Geographies, Iss 57, Pp 4-10 (2022) · 2022 · Inggris · DOAJ

This article introduces two case studies of underage transporters from Indonesia, who brought asylum seekers to Australia by boat and thus were convicted and jailed for the crime of people smuggling. In light of the hyper-politicised issue of people smuggling and the need to find punishable…

Street vending - a perpetual hustle: How street vendors in Hanoi’s Walking Street negotiate their existence

Nguyễn, Duy Linh

Pacific Geographies, Iss 57, Pp 16-23 (2022) · 2022 · Inggris · DOAJ

Street vendors make up an important part of the Vietnamese informal economy and carry a trait of the country’s urban DNA. However, they have long been the target of many regulations to create a modern and civilized city of Hanoi. By revisiting the discourse about formality and informality, private…

Living and working as a teacher in Seoul

Vetter, Gerd

Pacific Geographies, Iss 57, Pp 24-27 (2022) · 2022 · Inggris · DOAJ

This commentary addresses some of the cross-cultural issues of teaching abroad in the Republic of Korea (South Korea). Germans can apply directly to teach at ‘German schools abroad’, which are private schools around the world, or can sign up with the Central Agency for Schools Abroad (ZfA). The ZfA…

Invisible belongings: Carolinian practices of personhood and space as moral principles

Susanne Kuehling

Pacific Geographies, Iss 58, Pp 28-34 (2022) · 2022 · Inggris · DOAJ

Based on field research and published sources, this paper examines Micronesian migration in regards to principles of order and values on their home atolls. For Carolinians, place names and personal names are part of the web of intangible knowledge that can serve to assure certain positions and…

Adopting Micronesian children across international borders

Gonzaga Puas

Pacific Geographies, Iss 58, Pp 35-39 (2022) · 2022 · Inggris · DOAJ

This paper discusses adoption, commonly referred to as moumou, in the Mortlock Islands, Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Moumou remains a common practice by the Mortlock Islands community in the 21st century even within the setting of the Compact of Free Association with the US, which…

Book review: An island world vanishes into the ocean (Piciocchi, A./ Angeli, A., 2017)

Hermann Mückler

Pacific Geographies, Iss 58, Pp 42-43 (2022) · 2022 · Inggris · DOAJ

Book review Sea Sisters: Un équipage féminin à l‘épreuve de la pollution dans le Pacifique. (Le Roux, G. 2021)

Fache, Elodie

Pacific Geographies, Iss 57, Pp 30-31 (2022) · 2022 · Inggris · DOAJ

Book Review: Das Phänomen »Yizu« Migrantische Hochschulabsolvent*innen als Chinas Wendepunktgeneration?

Schmitz, Britta

Pacific Geographies, Iss 57, Pp 28-29 (2022) · 2022 · Inggris · DOAJ

In China, where one is born can have a huge impact on opportunities for social mobility. The so called hukou-system defines a person’s status either as rural or urban inhabitant. The system was originally intended to monitor and control the mechanisms of population migration but now it practically…

Explorations into Micronesian mobility: Transforming family and home across borders – an introduction

Rebecca Hofmann; Dominik Schieder

Pacific Geographies, Iss 58, Pp 4-10 (2022) · 2022 · Inggris · DOAJ

This article introduces a collection of essays on Micronesian mobility with a particular focus on family- and home-making discourses and practices. The special issue starts from the assumption that Oceania remains by and large invisible in the broader context of Mobility and Migration Studies…

“Deep in their hearts they still wanna come back” – Sonsorolese people in motion and the implications on culture and identity

Stephanie Walda-Mandel

Pacific Geographies, Iss 58, Pp 19-27 (2022) · 2022 · Inggris · DOAJ

The island of Sonsorol, one of the Soutwhest Islands of the Palauan archipelago, is located about 340 kilometers south of the main Palauan islands in western Micronesia. Its unique culture and language, which the islanders have developed far away from the rest of Palau, set them apart from the main…

Micronesian conceptions of home and gender in Chuuk and the US: Between the presence of absent islanders and island imaginaries abroad

Josealyn Eria; Rebecca Hofmann; Sarah A. Smith

Pacific Geographies, Iss 58, Pp 11-18 (2022) · 2022 · Inggris · DOAJ

Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), represents a space altered by transnational migration, reshaping the social lives of both those who enact their mobility and those who stay. While transnationalism has been explored in-depth from the perspective of those abroad, little work has…

Book review: “There is no place like home” Migration and cultural identity of the Sonsorolese, Micronesia (Walda-Mandel, S., 2016)

Rebecca Hofmann

Pacific Geographies, Iss 58, Pp 40-41 (2022) · 2022 · Inggris · DOAJ

The third independence referendum in New Caledonia – a fallback to colonialism?

Kowasch, Matthias; Batterbury, Simon P.J.; Bouard, Séverine dkk.

Pacific Geographies, Iss 57, Pp 11-15 (2022) · 2022 · Inggris · DOAJ

The third and final referendum in the French overseas territory New Caledonia on December 12, 2021, was wasted. Although the vote was legal and the result was clear (96.5% voting against independence), we argue – along with various international observers – that the schedule did not respect Kanak…

Fiji Islander trans-border mobility in the Pacific: The case of Fiji and Japan

Schieder, Dominik

Pacific Geographies, Iss 56, Pp 13-22 (2021) · 2021 · Inggris · DOAJ

This article is concerned with Fiji Islanders in Japan. Its objective is to introduce a to date little explored case of Pacific Islander trans-border mobility within the Pacific region. After providing a general overview of the topic, it discusses two of the main reasons why Fiji Islanders spend…

Book Review: Das Prachtboot. Wie Deutsche die Kunstschätze der Südsee raubten, by Götz Aly („The Splendid Boat: How Germans Stole the Art Treasures of the South Seas“)

Mückler, Hermann

Pacific Geographies, Iss 56, Pp 32-35 (2021) · 2021 · Inggris · DOAJ

Can and should one even write a review of a book that has already been extensively reviewed in all major journals and magazines and that continues to excite people? You can - and must! The political scientist, historian and journalist Götz Aly, who comes from Heidelberg, has succeeded in putting…

“Ariki meets Tangata manu” – Tapati Rapa Nui, a festival of indigenous identity or expression of constructed authenticity?

Wolfgang Kiss

Pacific Geographies, Iss 55, Pp 20-24 (2021) · 2021 · Inggris · DOAJ

Rapa Nui, Easter Island, has had a great fascination for archaeological research since its discovery in 1722. The focus of interest was on the massive stone monuments, the moai, sculptures with a human face, which raise many questions. This stone evidence of Polynesian culture’s uniqueness led to…

„Micronexit”: Regionalism in confusion

Hasenkamp, Oliver

Pacific Geographies, Iss 56, Pp 23-31 (2021) · 2021 · Inggris · DOAJ

Pacific regionalism is in a severe crisis after the Micronesian states Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia have announced their withdrawal from the most important regional organization, the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF). This article discusses the…

Moana made waves: Discussing the representation of Pacific Islanders in the Disney movie Moana

Hannah Dittmer

Pacific Geographies, Iss 55, Pp 25-29 (2021) · 2021 · Inggris · DOAJ

This paper sheds light on the debate the Disney movie Moana sparked on Pacific Islands by reviewing literature from indigenous Pacific anthropologists such as Vicente Diaz, Vilsoni Hereniko, Mārata Tamaira, and Dionne Fonoti. The author analyses the plot of Moana and the general representation of…

“Defend the Oceans!” Ghostnet Art and Environmental Activism of Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

Walda-Mandel, Stephanie

Pacific Geographies, Iss 56, Pp 4-12 (2021) · 2021 · Inggris · DOAJ

Ghostnet art is an art movement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that has been gaining enthusiastic followers worldwide in recent years, not only because of its impressive artistic design, but equally because of the artists’ message behind the artworks. The ghostnet sculptures, made…

Identities of Indigenous and missionary cultures in German New Guinea Cultural changes through medical work carried out by the Neuendettelsau Missionary Society

Magdalena Kittelmann

Pacific Geographies, Iss 55, Pp 11-19 (2021) · 2021 · Inggris · DOAJ

The German colonial period in Papua New Guinea (1884-1919) involved profound changes in culture and identity – for Indigenous peoples as well as for missionaries and administrators. In 1886, the first Lutheran missionaries from the Neuendettelsau Missionary Society arrived at Finschhafen in…