Migration and remittances in island microstates: a comparative perspective on the South Pacific and the Caribbean

By J. Connell, D. Conway. 2000

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Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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In Demography

1. Sasi Iamsiraroj
2. K. Brown
3. M. McGillivray
4. M. Hulme
5. S. Curran
6. S. Feeny
7. W. Adger

In Sociology and Political Science

1. M. Hulme
2. Sasi Iamsiraroj
3. K. Brown
4. M. McGillivray
5. Claudia M. Buch
6. S. Curran
7. S. Feeny
8. W. Adger

Citations in the corpus

• Adaptation to climate change in the developing world (2003, background): “…from Brazil, Vietnam and the small island developing nations that, contrary to received wisdom, new migrants to frontier areas build up knowledge of the local environments and promote sustainable utilization of resources (Connell and Conway, 2000; Adger et al., 2002; Muchagata and Brown, 2000).”
• Worker Remittances and Capital Flows to Developing Countries (2004, background): “to Developing Countries”
• Social Capital, Collective Action, and Adaptation to Climate Change (2003, background): “Such migratory strategies have been used throughout human history in the Pacific Islands to promote resilience, even though they have been portrayed negatively in terms of promoting dependency (see Barnett 2001; Connell and Conway 2000).”
• Migration social capital and the environment : considering migrant selectivity and networks in relation to coastal ecosystems. (2002, background): “…shown to shift consumption preferences away from local exploitation of the environment through increases in standards of living, sometimes through the investment in non-farm or non-natural resource based businesses (Bertram 1986; Connell 1994; Connell and Conway 2000; Gould 1994; Bernacsek 1986).”
• Adaptation of Human Coping Strategies in a Small Island Society in the SW Pacific—50 Years of Change in the Coupled Human–Environment System on Bellona, Solomon Islands (2008, background): “Hence, new perspectives for local livelihood strategies have emerged (Brown and Connell 2006; Connell and Conway 2000; Curran and Agardy 2002; Carrier 1989; Feinberg 2002; James 1991; Poirine 1998).”
• Remittances and Economic Growth: Larger Impacts in Smaller Countries? (2014, background): “Connell and Conway (2000) and Brown and Jimenez (2008) look at the impact of remittances on income poverty and income inequality in two Pacific SIDS, Fiji and Tonga.”