Griffith’s Transnational Fijians: Between the Devil, the Deep Blue Sea…and their Pastors

Abstract

This chapter is about Fijians and their movements to and from an isolated rural area in Australia (Schubert 2008).1 Pacific Islanders go to some of the most unlikely, isolated places and form communities and ways of communicating with other like-communities as survival tactics. This occurs in the face of pressures both in their homelands and their ‘receiving ’ countries. Pacific Islanders endure adverse economic and political conditions at home. Although migration is an apparent solution to this ‘squeeze ’ (Peutz 2006, 230), Islanders arriving in the United States, Australia and New Zealand find themselves being squeezed by an unforgiving labour market in which they must find a role to survive and often, in the early stages of migration, an absence of supportive kin networks. Quite aside from these post-entry issues, there is the initial problem of obtaining migrant entry. In response to such pressures, a few hundred Pacific Islanders, specifically

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