...” and “have nots.” It then considers the interrelationships among economic history, politics of identity, and micronationalist movements such as Maasina Rule and the Moro Movement. It also traces the history of Malaitan settlement and labor migration on Guadalcanal and concludes by discussing the emergence...

...Based on careful archival research and intimate life stories, the Pearl Frontier offers a subaltern imagining of Australian historical connections with Indonesia through labor migration. This study of maritime mobility demonstrates how, in the colonial quest for valuable pearl-shell, Australians...

... and western Solomons, the history of labor migration, and the nature of postcolonial political culture and its connection with the rapacious logging industry. It then describes the politics of regional and island-wide identity before turning to the Ethnic Tension of 1998–2003 that began with the uprising...

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