Population mobility and indigenous peoples in Australasia and North America / / edited by John Taylor and Martin Bell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450983003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-134-59196-9; 0-203-46478-8; 1-280-01986-7; 9786610019861
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Research in Population and Migration ; ; v.No.4
• Altri autori (Persone): TaylorJ <1953-> (John); BellMartin <1949->
• Disciplina: 304.8/097
• Soggetti: Human geography - North America; Human geography - Australasia; Population geography - North America; Population geography - Australasia; Indians of North America - Migrations; Indians of North America - Population; Aboriginal Australians - Migrations; Aboriginal Australians - Population; Maori (New Zealand people) - Migrations; Maori (New Zealand people) - Population; Electronic books.; North America Population; Australasia Population
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: New World demography; International perspectives; Continuity and change in Indigenous Australian population mobility; Flirting with Zelinsky in Aotearoa/New Zealand: a Maori mobility transition; Migration and ; spatial distribution of American Indians in the twentieth century; Government policy and the spatial redistribution of Canada's Aboriginal peoples; Data issues and analysis; Data sources and issues for the analysis of Indigenous peoples' mobility; Registered Indian mobility and migration in Canada: patterns and implicationsLocal contingency; The politics of Maori mobility; American Indians and geographic mobility: some parameters for public policy; The formation of contemporary Aboriginal settlement patterns in Australia: government policies and programmes; Myth of the ~walkabout~: movement in the Aboriginal domain; The social underpinnings of an ~outstation movement~ in Cape York Peninsula, Australia; Conclusion: emerging research themes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book draws together relevant research findings to produce the first comprehensive overview of Indigenous peoples' mobility. Chapters draw from a range of disciplinary sources, and from a diversity of regions and nation-states. Within nations, mobility is the key determinant of local population change, with implications for service delivery, needs assessment, and governance. Mobility also provides a key indicator of social and economic transformation. As such, it informs both social theory and policy debate. For much of the twentieth century conventional wisdom anticipated the steady conve