Island Migration in Transition: the Island Migration in Transition: the Mediterranean, North Atlantic and Mediterranean, North Atlantic and

South Pacific experiences South Pacific experiences Chair: Dr. Nicola PiperChair: Dr. Nicola Piper

Arnold Bergstraesser InstituteArnold Bergstraesser Institute

Freiburg UniversityFreiburg University

GermanyGermany

„Island migration“ subject to various academic and policy debates:

1. Migration-Development Nexus Debate

→ relationship between migration and development

→ remittances, brain drain

= migration from islands

IntroductionIntroduction

Dr. Nicola Piper

2. Lifestyle migration or „retirement migration“

→ „Brits abroad“

→ different „classes“ (the rich ex-banker, the drop-out)

= migration to islands

Dr. Nicola Piper

3. Climate change induced migration

→ sinking islands:• Pacific Island countries and other small island

states• case of Vanuatu

→ socio-economic consequences• re-settlement, „government-in-exile“• impact on tourist industry

= migration from islands

4. Recent migration from North Africa to islands in the EU

→ in light of political changes in North Africa→ islands as transit destinations to EU mainland

= migration to and from islands

= negligence of other labour migration to EU island states

Other gap:

Debates mostly ahistorical!

Dr. Nicola Piper

Selected Bibliography:

Maria Angeles Casado-Diaz, Claudia Kaiser and Anthony M. Warnes (2004), ‘Northern European retired residents in nine southern European areas: characteristics, motivations and adjustment’, in: Ageing & Society, no. 24, pp. 353-381 Andreas Huber and Karen O’Reilly (2004), ‘The construction of Heimat under conditions of individualized modernity: Swiss and British elderly migrants in Spain’, in: Ageing & Society, no. 24, pp. 327-351 Louise Ackers and Peter Dwyer (2004) ‘Fixed laws, fluid lives: the citizenship status of post-retirement migrants in the European Union’, in: Ageing & Society, no. 24, pp. 451-475 Anthony M. Warnes and Allan Williams (2006), ‘Older Migrants in Europe: A New Focus for Migration Studies’, in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 32(8): 1257-1281 Per Gustafson (2002), ‘Tourism and Seasonal Retirement Migration’, in: Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 29(4): 899-918 Michaela Benson and Karen O’Reilly (2009), ‘Migration and the search for a better way of life: a critical exploration of lifestyle migration’, in: The Sociological Review, vol. 57(4): 608-625 David Bowen and Alexander F. Schouten (2008) ‘Tourist Satisfaction and Beyond: Tourist Migrants in Mallorca’, in: International Journal of Tourism Research, vol. 10, pp. 141-153

Selected Bibliography:

UNFCCC (2005) „Climate change, small island develoing States“, issued by the Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC), Bonn

Yamamoto, L. and Esteban, M. (20109 „Vanishing Island States and sovereignty“, in: Ocean & Coastal Management, vol. 53, pp. 1-9