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Permissive residents : West Papuan refugees living in Papua New Guinea /

"This book offers another frame through which to view the event of the 2006 outrigger landing of 43 West Papuans to Australia. West Papuans have crossed boundaries to seek asylum since 1962, usually eastward into Papua New Guinea (PNG), and occasionally southward to Australia. Between 1984-86,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Glazebrook, Diana
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Canberra : ANU E Press, 2008.
Series:Monographs in anthropology series (Online)
Subjects:
Ethnology > Papua New Guinea > East Awin.
Refugees > Papua New Guinea > East Awin.
Refugees > Indonesia > Papua.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Intoxicating flag
  • Speaking historically about West Papua
  • Culture as the conscious object of performance
  • A flight path
  • Sensing displacement
  • Refugee settlements as social spaces
  • Inscribing the empty rainforest with our history
  • Unsated sago appetites
  • Becoming translokal
  • Permissive residents
  • Relocation to connected places
  • Being 'indigenous' in the Indonesian province of Papua
  • Coda: Forty-three West Papuans arrive in Australia by outrigger canoe, 2006.