In this review, I examine the meaning, place, and role of remittances for migrants (movers)
and for their sending households and communities. I define remittances as more than …

This article explores the factors that account for variation in remittance flows. Why do some
immigrants send much more money to their country of origin than others? This is a question …

For several decades there has been extensive migration from the small island states of the
South Pacific and the eastern Caribbean to metropolitan countries, resulting in absolute …

Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island
kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades …

This literature review aims to create a picture, to bring focus on to issues of volunteering and
cultural obligation amongst the Pacific community in New Zealand. There is an absence in …

In this benchmark volume top scholars come together to present state-of-the-art research
and pursue a more rigorous framework for understanding and studying the linkages …

Since the late 1960s Tongans have been leaving their islands in large numbers and settling
in many different nations. Tongans Overseas is a timely look at their settlement experiences …

The area now known as the Pacific was settled from west to east in surges of movement
between island groups over hundreds of years, eventually taking people as far as Hawai'i in …

At the second-hand marketplace in Nuku'alofa, the capital of Tonga, Tongans buy and sell
objects that their diasporic relatives send them instead of remittances. While selling objects …

Small island states are increasingly characterised by the growing role of international
migration and remittances as components of national and household incomes. Recent …