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The Fiji Islands: Immigration to Immigration
Fiji in the South West Pacific resembles Winston Churchill's Russia: a puzzle shrouded in mistery. Fiji is conveniently situated in a strategic position, by far the most advanced economic region of the South Pacific Islands, where the most important institutes of interregional co-operation are situated, and is also susceptible to self-inflicted injuries with paralyzing after-effects.
The three coup d'états in 13 years, two in 1987 and one in 2000, have hit the island economies hard, shattered investors' trust, undermined racial relationships in an ethnic divide and damaged the institution and practice of good government. The perhaps most important long-term result has been the migration of the country's best and smartest pasturelands to North America and Australasia, losing the small island nations of abilities and talents they cannot possibly have.
In the foreseeable future, the wave of migration is unlikely to ease. It is a multi-ethnic country with about 800,000 inhabitants. Indians make up 51 per-cent of the population and Indo-Fijians about 43 per-cent. Other six per cents are Europeans and persons of Fiji-Europe origin, Chinese, Pacific Islanders and others.
In 1874 Fiji became a crown colony of Britain and in 1970 an autonomous country within the Commonwealth of Nations. Fiji was governed by a ruling faction led by a high chieftain, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, which was governed by Fijians (with the assistance of part of the Indian-Fijian fellowship and smaller minorities) from the time of the country's sovereignty until 1987.
Under the leadership of an Indian fiji man, Dr. Timoci Bavadra, the ruling party was displaced by a force putsch under the leadership of then lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka. In 1990, a president's order revoked the right of the Indian-Fijian population to vote. Its current, almost entirely tribal Fiji-based, Fiji administration uses na-tionalist orthodoxy and has pledged to review the country's constitutional system to restore Fiji's tribal scrutiny of the state.
A multi-racial Fiji was founded at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Fiji's first Fijian colony gubernator, Sir Arthur Gordon, brought in workers from India to work on Australian Sugarcaneations. The Gordon government banned Fijians from doing business so that they could live their lives undisturbed by external influences and thus avoid the fates of other tribal peoples who came into the outdoors.
Incorporating forced labourers into Fiji was a pivotal part of Gordon's policies to defend the people. From 1879 to 1916, 60,000 contractually bound workers went to Fiji, and their work contributed to laying the foundation for Fiji's sugar-based industry. The majority of immigrants stayed on the island after their five-year agreements expired.
The majority of today's Indian Fiji people are their offspring, the remainder are offspring of Gujarati merchants and Punjabi farmers who came in the 1920'. After Fiji ceased employment in 1920, Indo-Fijians moved to the Fiji Sugarcane Belt, mainly on the two major isles of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu.
At the end of the Second World War, the Indo-Fijians predominated among the entire populace. It was only in the 1980' that this tendency was reversing, causing the Fijians to be concerned about their place and identities in their own landhold. The recent turmoil in Fiji has provided a framework for a better appreciation of the complexity of the emigration process of its people.
Fiji has had two major features since the coup d'état. Firstly, the dramatically increased numbers of people emigrating since the 1987 coup d'état. From 1978 to 1986, 20,703 Fijians left Fiji at an intersection of 2,300 per year. Secondly, the majority of expatriates - about 90 percent - were Indo-Fijians.
Over the past few years, highly scholarly and qualified Fijians and other members of the Fiji middle-class ethnical minorities have started to leave Fiji, but their numbers are still low. At the beginning of the 1980s, about 60 percent of Fiji's immigrants went to Canada and the western United States, the remainder to Australia and New Zealand.
The immigration policy in the United States was more open, clearer and friendly. However, in the 1990' it came to a turnaround: About two third of the population emigrated from Fiji to Australia. This inversion is the outcome of many elements, such as the opening up of skilled immigration, reunification of families, increased awareness of job creation and increased awareness of the need for work.
They are also important for their close ties with Fiji, for their easy communications and travelling, and for their sports, social, cultural and business connections. Many Indo-Fijians leave Fiji for several reason. The Indo-Fijians began to leave Fiji in number. It is the racist sponsorship policy generated by the coup that has actually marginalised the EU.
Job creation possibilities in the government services, formerly ruled by Indo-Fijians, declined as nominations and promotion were often ruled by tribal ethnicities and underpinnings. Celebrity Fiji nationalites are insisting that Indo-Fijians must be satisfied with being second-class nationals, or at least let Fijians rule the area. Because of their tribal nature, they are claiming to be the "birthright" of the state.
You want the Constitutional Treaty to be amended to mirror the special status of the Fijians in Fiji's nation. Your message "does not agree that Indo-Fijians are part of this multi-cultural nation as people with the same civil liberties as any other community," says Jone Dakuvula, a civil liberties campaigner for Fiji democratic and ethical and social equity.
According to Dakuvula, what the story "really says" is that the Indo-Fijians do not come from this state. There is an implying [the report's argument] that Indo-Fijians should be forced to go if they do not agree with the Nazi constitution[the members of the committee]. The Indo-Fijian population is emigrating due to other reasons.
Nearly 90 per cent of Fiji's entire territory is owned by Fijians. Only leaseholders, most of whom are Indo-Fijians, can lease this area. For Indo-Fijians, the outlook for the growth of the world' s largest industrial sector, the Egyptian Republic, looks very depressing.
A further issue is the ongoing insecurity about the uncertainties regarding the present preference given to Fiji's sucrose growers in the European Union³d. Immigration is a way out. There is often said that there is hardly a unique Indian-Fijian population in Fiji that does not have at least one member abroad. "Indo-Fijians - yes, other Fijians who also hike - are the quintessence of the transmission.
Even though they are living abroad, they actively communicate with Fiji through a wide range of means: web, phone, video, regular revisits and remittances of funds and goods to Fiji. More and more Indian Fiji culture and welfare organisations abroad have started to support Indian Fiji student in Fiji. However, the costs of emigrating to Fiji are known.
In Fiji, the losses are expected to be about $44 on averages. $5 million per year due to migration, mainly due to skills shortfalls, retraining of new employees and late nominations. Coming from Fiji's qualified and highly trained migrant population. There is a clear and tangible effect of their losses on Fiji, especially in the healthcare and educational sectors.
Formerly largely self-sufficient health care staff, Fiji now import physicians from oversee. The ongoing upheaval in the Fiji region - road closures, municipal criminality, rumours of another putsch - will lead to more migrantisation. The formal answer to Indian-Fijian immigration is a mixture. There are regrets and concerns at one scale about the huge lack of talents and skills and a certain amount of sympathy for why this is happening.
On the other hand, there is "gratitude" among those who will profit from Indo-Fijian migration, especially in the civil war. Fijians welcome their departures as a necessary first stage in the "Fijianization" of their land, a prize that the land must "pay" to regain its tribal souls.
It' keeping Indo-Fijians trapped between a cliff and a tough place. But those who are left find it tough to get a place at the tribal Fiji dinner menu. It is hesitant to make investments in people it knows will eventually loose, while the refusal of opportunities is only making Indo-Fijians more resolute to flee the country.
Fiji's Indians emigrated to Fiji in the latter part of the nineteenth and twentieth century as contract workers to establish an industry and make available inexpensive labour so that the tribal communities could survive the torments of the plantations and move forward at their own speed in their own subsistence economies.
It' s no overstatement to say that it was the work of India's people that protected the tribal communities from the destructive impact of the contemporary age. However, despite their pivotal roles in Fiji's economical and societal growth, the offspring of these contractually bound ministers are now seen as an obstacle to the legitimate advancement of the people.
That assessment will not be changed in the near term, which means that the level of Indo-Fijian migration looking for new possibilities abroad remains high. Fiji's emigration: "Fiji population outflow. "In Population of Fiji, published by Rajesh Chandra and Jenny Bryant, 180-194. The Journal of Pacific History 37:1, 87-101, "Fiji General Elections of 2001".
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" Lecture at the Fifth International Conference of the Asia Pacific Migration Research Network, Naviti, Fiji, September 24-26, 2002.