Contemporary Migration Within the Pacific Islands: The Case of Fijian Skilled Workers in Kiribati and Marshall Islands
Rokoduru, Avelina (December 2006). "Contemporary Migration Within the Pacific Islands: The Case of Fijian Skilled Workers in Kiribati and Marshall Islands". In Firth, Stewart (ed.). Contemporary Migration Within the Pacific Islands: The Case of Fijian Skilled Workers in Kiribati and Marshall Islands (PDF). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. doi:10.22459/GGPI.12.2006.09. ISBN 978-1-920942-97-7.
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Abstract: Contemporary skilled migration from Fiji to other Pacific Island countries began in the early 1980s and has continued since. There are Fijian citizens who work as domestic help as well as in the hotel industry in Cook Islands, and there are nurses, teachers, doctors, lawyers, pilots, mechanics, electricians and technicians in the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands and Vanuatu. With the coming of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands in 2003, we have seen policemen and women moving to Solomon Islands. What is more, the trend is likely to continue if the Pacific Plan, which envisages greater labour mobility among Pacific Islands Forum countries, becomes reality. This paper provides a detailed discussion of the Fijian migrants in the Marshall Islands and Kiribati to illustrate this new phenomenon of intra-regional skilled migration from Fiji. A profile of the Fijian migrantsThere were 49 Fijian labour migrants who were interviewed in the Marshalls and Kiribati. Of these, 37 per cent were males and 63 per cent were females. By ethnic division, 77 per cent were native Fijians, 15 per cent were Indo-Fijians, 4 per cent were Rotumans and the remaining 4 per cent included Rabians (Fiji-born Gilbertese) and a naturalised Filipino resident. The Fijian migrants in this study have lived a minimum of one to a maximum of 37 years in their Pacific Island destination. The ages of the migrants ranged from 22 to 65 years with 22 per cent of the migrants in their 20s, 32 per cent in their thirties, 28 per cent in their forties and about 18 per cent in their fifties and sixties. The average age was 26 years; therefore, the majority of the migrants were well within the active working-age group of 20 to 50. Finally, their religious affiliation varied between Christian denominations…
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