Transcript Presentation 3

Island Migration in Transition: the
Mediterranean, North Atlantic and
South Pacific experiences
Chair: Dr. Nicola Piper
Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
Freiburg University
Germany
Introduction
„Island migration“ subject to various
academic and policy debates:
1. Migration-Development Nexus
Debate
→
relationship between migration and
development
→
remittances, brain drain
= migration from islands
Dr. Nicola Piper
2. Lifestyle migration or „retirement
migration“
→ „Brits abroad“
→ different „classes“ (the rich ex-banker, the drop-out)
= migration to islands
3. Climate change induced migration
→ sinking islands:
•
Pacific Island countries and other small island
states
• case of Vanuatu
→ socio-economic consequences
• re-settlement, „government-in-exile“
• impact on tourist industry
= migration from islands
Dr. Nicola Piper
4. Recent migration from North Africa to
islands in the EU
→ in light of political changes in North Africa
→ islands as transit destinations to EU mainland
= migration to and from islands
= negligence of other labour migration to EU island
states
Other gap:
Debates mostly ahistorical!
Dr. Nicola Piper
Selected Bibliography:
Maria Angeles Casado-Diaz, Claudia Kaiser and Anthony M. Warnes (2004), ‘Northern European retired
residents in nine southern European areas: characteristics, motivations and adjustment’, in: Ageing & Society,
no. 24, pp. 353-381
Andreas Huber and Karen O’Reilly (2004), ‘The construction of Heimat under conditions of individualized
modernity: Swiss and British elderly migrants in Spain’, in: Ageing & Society, no. 24, pp. 327-351
Louise Ackers and Peter Dwyer (2004) ‘Fixed laws, fluid lives: the citizenship status of post-retirement migrants
in the European Union’, in: Ageing & Society, no. 24, pp. 451-475
Anthony M. Warnes and Allan Williams (2006), ‘Older Migrants in Europe: A New Focus for Migration Studies’, in:
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 32(8): 1257-1281
Per Gustafson (2002), ‘Tourism and Seasonal Retirement Migration’, in: Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 29(4):
899-918
Michaela Benson and Karen O’Reilly (2009), ‘Migration and the search for a better way of life: a critical
exploration of lifestyle migration’, in: The Sociological Review, vol. 57(4): 608-625
David Bowen and Alexander F. Schouten (2008) ‘Tourist Satisfaction and Beyond: Tourist Migrants in Mallorca’,
in: International Journal of Tourism Research, vol. 10, pp. 141-153
Selected Bibliography:
UNFCCC (2005) „Climate change, small island develoing States“, issued by the
Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC), Bonn
Yamamoto, L. and Esteban, M. (20109 „Vanishing Island States and sovereignty“, in:
Ocean & Coastal Management, vol. 53, pp. 1-9