Minority Rights in the Pacific Region: A Comparative Legal Analysis

Joshua Castellino (Professor of Law and Head of Law Department at Middlesex University)

ISBN 10: 0199574820 / ISBN 13: 9780199574827

Published by Oxford University Press, 2009

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Joshua Castellino (Professor of Law and Head of Law Department at Middlesex University), Oxford University Press. Countries in the Pacific face unique challenges of survival and progress in establishing themselves and participating fully in international society. Their geographic isolation from the rest of global society is compounded by complex layers of often competing national and indigenous identities among their populations built through wave upon wave of migration. This has created rich diversity, competing regimes and real challenges in terms of state-building, ethnicidentity, social policy cohesion and development in post-colonial settings. The issues studied here would be of interest to scholars from a range of different disciplines such as Law, Politics, Sociologyand Anthropology. By examining the theory and practice of minority rights law in states such as Fiji and Papua New Guinea, alongside their more familiar neighbours Australia and New Zealand, this book makes a unique contribution in a region often ignored in the literature.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Minority Rights in the Pacific Region: A Comparative Legal Analysis
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199574820
• ISBN 13: 9780199574827
• Binding: Hardback
• Book Type: Hardback

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Synopsis

Countries in the Pacific face unique challenges of survival and progress in establishing themselves and participating fully in international society. Their geographic isolation from the rest of global society is compounded by complex layers of often competing national and indigenous identities among their populations built through wave upon wave of migration. This has created rich diversity, competing regimes and real challenges in terms of state-building, ethnic identity, social policy cohesion and development in post-colonial settings. The issues studied here would be of interest to scholars from a range of different disciplines such as Law, Politics, Sociology and Anthropology. By examining the theory and practice of minority rights law in states such as Fiji and Papua New Guinea, alongside their more familiar neighbors Australia and New Zealand, this book makes a unique contribution in a region often ignored in the literature.

About the Author

Joshua Castellino is Professor of Law & Head of Law Department at Middlesex University London, UK, and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Irish Center for Human Rights, Galway, Ireland.
David Keane is a lecturer in law at Middlesex University.