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Fijians in town / [authors, Solrun W. Bakker [and others] ; edited by Chris Griffin ; Mike Monsell-Davis].

Suva : Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific, 1986.

Rural-urban migration -- Fiji.

Urbanization -- Fiji.

Sociology, Urban -- Fiji.

Fiji -- Social conditions.

xv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Introduction -- City lights: Who wants to stay on the farm? / Eloni Goneyali -- Fijian interprovincial migration and urbanisation: a study of age and sex preferences / Roger Frazer -- The growth of wage labour and its consequences for a Fijian village / Elizabeth Ponter -- Survival: Urban Fijians and the problems of unemployment / C. Gounis and H.J. Rutz -- Prostitution: problem or profitable industry? / Taina Nabavu and Betty Schutz -- Crime and punishment: social meanings / C.C.M. Griffin -- Identity: "It's a man's game": identity, social role, social change and delinquency in Suva / Michael M. Davis -- Communication, social identity and the rising cost of Fijian communalism / Lasarusa Vusoniwailala -- Can custom be custom built?: cultural obstacles to Fijian commercial enterprise / Aporoso Rakoto -- Vaka-i-Suva: the new tradition: The dilemma of tradition / Aloesi Suguta -- Is kinship costly? / Nacanieli Rika -- Ceremony and complication in an urban setting / Solrun W. Bakker.

Examines some of the social processes in emigration from rural areas and the growth of an urban population in Fiji.

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