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Can I read Development Subjectivities, Governmentality, and Migration Management in the Pacific on EtoBox?
Development Subjectivities, Governmentality, and Migration Management in the Pacific by Lya Mainé Astonitas is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Development Subjectivities, Governmentality, and Migration Management in the Pacific about?
To advance the debates around temporary migration in the Pacific, a governmentality framework contributes to understanding social and historical relations produced by migration management at regional, country, and individual scales. The Recognised Seasonal Employer’s (RSE) scheme, the Pacific epitome of regulated migration, temporarily recruits participants from labour-rich countries to work in New Zealand’s horticulture and viticulture sectors. Driven by agricultural labour shortfalls, it was conceived and promoted as a development intervention for Pacific countries, and is regularly claimed to provide a ‘triple win’ for employers and industry, in Pacific countries via remittances, and participants’ communities. Missing from these claims is an understanding of how seasonal migration fits into new migration management regimes, and the instruments deployed to enable this omission. To appreciate how workers’ subjectivities are transformed to favour labour mobility, the spotlight is on the scheme’s articulation as a development instrument, its operationalisation, and the mundane day-to-day situations it entails.
Who reads Development Subjectivities, Governmentality, and Migration Management in the Pacific?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lya Mainé Astonitas
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2025
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781009400213
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Management, Economics, Business