Open AccessThe paradox of two countries called Fiji
Author(s) -
David Robie
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v13i2.915
Subject(s) - portrait , diaspora , sugar cane , project commissioning , publishing , history , genealogy , art history , sociology , literature , art , gender studies , engineering , agricultural engineering
This book, Stopover, is a poignant documentary of the lives of the cane families and a story of migration. It is illustrated with some 59 sepiatoned Connew portraits and other studies, seven diaspora snapshots, two grainy Speight television images and a faded image of two unkown men, earlier descendants (c. 1940's) of the girmitiya, 19th century indentured labourers brought to Fiji by the British colonialists to establish the sugar plantations.