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0000-0002-2379-6940
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La Trobe University
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Anthropology | Studies of Pacific Peoples' Societies | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Social And Cultural Anthropology | Political Economy | International Relations | Anthropology of Development | Sociology | Social Change | Race And Ethnic Relations
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Understanding other countries | Ethnicity and multiculturalism | Understanding international relations | National identity | Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Migrant Development and Welfare | International Aid and Development | Pacific Peoples Development and Welfare |
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Publications
The New Nobility: Tonga’s Young Traditional Leaders
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 31-10-2019
DOI: 10.22459/PY.2019.05
Isolated learners: young mature-age students, university culture, and desire for academic sociality
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-03-2017
Pacific Youth: Local and Global Futures
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 31-10-2019
DOI: 10.22459/PY.2019
Pacific Youth, Local and Global
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 31-10-2019
DOI: 10.22459/PY.2019.01
CEDAW Smokescreens: Gender Politics in Contemporary Tonga
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.1353/CP.2017.0003
'The lucky ones'? Overseas born Tongan youth in Tongan high schools
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2015
Mobilities of Return: Pacific Perspectives
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 14-12-2017
DOI: 10.22459/MR.12.2017
Engaging Environments in Tonga: Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-07-2022
‘Muzzas’ and ‘Old Skool Ravers’: Ethnicity, drugs and the changing face of Melbourne’s dance party/club scene
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2010
The production of precariousness and the racialisation of Pacific Islanders in an Australian horticultural region
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-02-2023
Remote indigenous communities in Australia: Questions of access, information, and self-determination ALOPI S . L AT UKEFU
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-2004
Lucky for some: bingo in Victoria
Publisher: La Trobe
Date: 2021
Becoming ‘Overstayers’: The Coloniality of Citizenship and the Resilience of Pacific Farm Workers
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 16-08-2019
Bingo seems like harmless fun – but higher stakes and new technology are making it more dangerous
Publisher: La Trobe
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.26181/19679574
Gone Native in Polynesia: Captivity Narratives and Experiences from the South Pacific
Publisher: JSTOR
Date: 1999
DOI: 10.2307/2672277
Pacific Islanders in Regional Victoria: Final Project Report
Publisher: La Trobe
Date: 2020
Transforming Transnationalism: Second Generation Tongans Overseas
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2007
DOI: 10.1177/011719680701600202
Abstract: Since the 1960s Tongans have developed extensive transnational ties between the homeland and the overseas populations, including remittances that for many years have bolstered Tonga's economy. This paper examines how these ties have been transformed over time, and focuses on the question of whether the children of Tongan migrants are likely to sustain such ties in the future. Drawing on data collected from ‘second generation’ Tongans in Australia, the paper explores their attitudes towards transnational practices and the extent to which they maintain connections with their parents' homeland. I argue that although Tonga's need for support from the diaspora is growing, migrants' children are unlikely to sustain the current level of remittances. Without an ongoing flow of new migrants, transnational ties are likely to weaken and levels of remittances will suffer a significant decline, with potentially devastating consequences for Tonga.
‘I was forced here’: perceptions of agency in second generation ‘return’ migration to Tonga
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-04-2016
Becoming Tongan today
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-04-2018
Tackling gambling harm to bingo players at a time of commercial, regulatory and technological change – towards a public health approach
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.PUHE.2022.01.038
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to identify possible regulatory, policy and program measures to address gambling harm to bingo players and their communities, and in doing so extend existing public health approaches to gambling to better include bingo. This was a qualitative case study of three populations in Victoria, Australia where bingo was popular and structural disadvantage common: Indigenous people in the state's east, Pacific people in the north and older people on low or fixed incomes in the capital, Melbourne. Our study investigated experiences of bingo, including gambling harm and recommendations for change. Data were generated through interviews with 53 bingo players and 13 stakeholders as well as 12 participant observations of bingo sessions. Five broad drivers of and influences on harm to bingo players are identified: technological, regulatory and commercial changes eroding bingo's protective factors bingo being used to bolster other forms of gambling promotion of gambling interests over people's wellbeing not recognising experiences of different communities and external structural influences such as racialised poverty. We identify recommendations from bingo players and stakeholders to address harm arising from bingo involving wagering. Based on these recommendations and available evidence, we propose five sets of measures to mitigate against gambling harm to bingo players and their communities, and so extend existing public health approaches to gambling to better encompass bingo. These sets of measures are: safeguarding bingo's protective features delinking bingo from the gambling eco-system dismantling political protection of the gambling industry tailoring strategies for sub-populations and preventing oppression and abuse. In the face of significant regulatory, commercial and technological changes to bingo that risk increasing and intensifying harm, a public health approach to bingo could help mitigate gambling harm.
Increasing harms for bingo players: digitisation, commercialisation and regulatory inadequacy: a multi-site case study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-05-2022
DOI: 10.1186/S12889-022-12954-Y
Abstract: Bingo is often understood as a low-harm form of gambling. This view has been challenged by a growing body of literature identifying gambling harm to bingo players in a range of countries. In this study, we aimed to identify which conditions enabled, facilitated, intensified or mitigated gambling harm for bingo players in three populations in Victoria in the context of corporate, technological and regulatory changes. Our qualitative study investigated experiences of bingo-related gambling harm in three populations in Victoria, Australia where bingo was popular and structural disadvantage common: Indigenous people in the east, Pacific people in the state’s north and older people on low or fixed incomes in the capital. Data was generated through interviews with 53 bingo players and 13 stakeholders as well as 12 participant observations of bingo sessions. We found that while bingo is overwhelmingly positive for many players, a minority of bingo players and their families experience notable harm. Harm was generated through traditional paper-based bingo games, new technologies such as tablet-based bingo and by the widespread tactic of placing bingo sessions in close proximity to harmful electronic gambling machines. Overall, the risk of harm to bingo players appears to be escalating due to commercial, technological and regulatory changes. These changes can be better managed by regulators: reforms are needed to safeguard bingo’s distinct character as a lower-risk form of gambling at a time when it, and its players, are under threat. Significantly, we found that harm to bingo players is intensified by factors external to gambling such as racialised poverty and adverse life events. Strategies that recognise these factors and grapple with gambling harm to bingo players are needed.
Evolving Understandings of Bingo in Four Decades of Literature: From Eyes Down to New Vistas
Publisher: University of Alberta Libraries
Date: 07-03-2022
DOI: 10.29173/CGS89
Abstract: Bingo is a distinct, enduring but understudied form of gambling. It provides comfort and pleasure to many of its players while also causing harm to some. While traditionally seen as low harm, it is being reshaped by technological and regulatory change. Despite this, there is no recent overview of the literature on bingo. This narrative review seeks to fill this gap by exploring the development of literature on bingo since the 1980s, first providing a chronological overview of writing on bingo and then a brief account of major themes in the literature. The literature reviewed was primarily identified through searches of academic databases using search terms such as betting, bingo, electronic and gambling. We find that bingo research makes a number of important contributions: it allows better understanding of groups of overlooked gamblers, corrects biases in gambling literature, highlights the importance of social and structural factors in understanding gambling and employs methodological approaches that are congruent with the people and practices being studied. Additionally, it provides new perspectives on gambling in terms of skill, affect, harm and control and offers a distinct viewpoint to analyse gambling and other phenomena.
Differences in maternal smoking across successive pregnancies – dose‐dependent relation to BMI z‐score in the offspring: an individual patient data (IPD) meta‐analysis
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-07-2018
DOI: 10.1111/OBR.12698
‘Second generation’ Tongan transnationalism: Hope for the future?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2004
Rethinking transnationalism through the second generation
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-09-2011
The Friendly Islands? Tonga’s Ambivalent Relationship with Tourism
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 15-12-2016
Fruit Picking and Farmwork as Racialised Stigma: The Children of Pacific Migrant Workers in Rural Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-10-2022
Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring overweight: is there a dose–response relationship? An individual patient data meta-analysis
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-02-2018
Civilians in World War II and DSM-IV mental disorders: results from the World Mental Health Survey Initiative
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-11-2017
Correction: Increasing harms for bingo players: digitisation, commercialisation and regulatory inadequacy: a multi-site case study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2022
Stigmatised learners: mature-age students negotiating university culture
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-11-2014
Dealing with the dark side in the ethnography of childhood: child punishment in Tonga
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-1993
Overseas-born youth in Tongan high schools: Learning the hard life
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 14-12-2017
Returning to the Pacific
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-04-2018
Change and Continuity in the Pacific
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-04-2018
Bingo, gender and the moral order of the household: Everyday gambling in a migrant community
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-06-2021
DOI: 10.1177/14695405211022082
Abstract: Feminist researchers have argued for a focus on ‘everyday gambling’ and domestic spaces as sites of women’s leisure. In this article, we analyse how culture, class and gender shape the consumer practices of migrant women from Pacific Islands countries (Cook Islands and Tonga) who play bingo in regional Australia. This intersectional approach examines the effects of bingo in the everyday lives of these women. We show how migrant women gamblers have a distinctive experience of ‘lifestyle’ that is located within a meaningful symbolic order that values both domestic responsibilities and community relations within extended families, even when distance from the homeland and economic precarity entail social and financial pressures. While much policy research focuses on gambling harms, including the impact of electronic gaming machines or online gambling, here we show how bingo is embedded in social relations that mitigate many of the ongoing financial problems and deeper existential anxieties for those in precarious economic circumstances.
Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns: home thoughts abroad
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-09-2015
The modified proportional fair scheduling algorithms for real-time applications in multiuser multicarrier systems
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 10-2009
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