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Pacific Themes: Identity

Books and book chapters

Pacific Diaspora by Paul Spickard, Joanne Rondilla, Debbie Hippolite Wright (Editors)
ISBN: 0824825624
Publication Date: 2002
Pacific Identities and Well-Being by Margaret Nelson Agee, Tracey McIntosh , Philip Culbertson, Cabrini 'Ofa Makasiale (Editors)
ISBN: 0203113578
Publication Date: 2013
See Chapter 2: Not Another New Zealand-born Identity Crisis: Well-being and the Politics of Belonging (pp. 27-45) by Mila, K.
Tagata o te Moana Nui: The Evolving Identities of Pacific Peoples in Aotearoa, New Zealand by Cluny Macpherson, Paul Spoonley, Melani Anae
ISBN: 0864693699
Publication Date: 2001
See: The New Vikings of the Sunrise: New Zealand-Born in the Information Age (pp. 89-101) by M. Anae.

Thesis

Fofoa-i-vao-'ese: The Identity Journeys of NZ-born Samoans
Melani Anae (1998)
PhD Anthropology.

Articles

Racial Identity, Phenotype, and Self-Esteem Among Biracial Polynesian/White Individuals
Allen, G., Garriott, P. O., Reyes, C. J., & Hsieh, C. (2013). Family Relations, 62(1), 82-91.
Māori and Pasifika Language, Identity, and Wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand
Matika, Correna M., et al. (2021). Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online 16(2): 396-418.
Between Marginality and Marketability: Contesting Representations of Diasporic Pacific Identities
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma (2016). Nordic Journal of English Studies 15(1): 25-45.
Pacific Youth, Acculturation and Identity: The Relationship Between Ethnic Identity and Well-being: New Directions for Research
Manuela, S., & Anae, M. (2017). Pacific Dynamics 1(1): 129-147.

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