Saili Matagi: Samoan Migrants in AustraliaAn exploration of the practice of fa'a-Samoa among migrants, of the nature of the politics of traditionn within their communities and of the search for opportunities in new environments. |
Contents
Glossary of Samoan Words | 10 |
Introduction | 16 |
A Historical Background | 46 |
Background and Socioeconomic | 74 |
The Christian Church and the FaaSamoa | 106 |
Exchange Support Networks and Remittances | 150 |
Family Community and Identity | 188 |
Continuities and Change | 225 |
Postscript | 246 |
| 258 | |
Appendices | 268 |
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activities aiga American Samoa Aso Fitu Assembly of God Bankstown Campsie Canterbury Canterbury-Bankstown cash Catholic census cent ceremonial exchanges churches in Sydney congregation contribute donations economic EFKS EFKS church employment ethnic European fa'a-Samoa fa'alavelave Fa'apotopotoga fa'atau faifeau Fairfield feagaiga females fono funeral gifts Hawai'i Immigration included individual kinship Kotchek lalaga Litala living lotu males Marrickville matafale matagaluega matai Methodist migrant community migration to Australia minister Mt Druitt nu'u organization overseas Pacific Islands palagi parents participation pastor Perepereane Pitt & Macpherson political practices Punchbowl relatives religion religious remittances respondents Rolff Samoa-born population Samoan Advisory Council Samoan church Samoan community Samoan culture Samoan family Samoan language Samoan migrants Samoan social Sample survey si'i siva Source status Sydney Table tama fafine tama tane taulele'a Tepa Toese Tonga Total tulafale tusiga igoa Uniting Church village visits wedding welfare Western Samoa Western Samoa-born wife Zealand
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