Workbook
For Pacific Islander Families in Australia
Pasifika Identity, Distance from Home, and the Community That Rebuilt
Document your Pacific Islander heritage brought to Australia.
Adults from Pacific Islander families living in Australia — Samoan, Tongan, Fijian, I-Kiribati, Tuvaluan, Ni-Vanuatu, and other Pasifika communities — who want to understand and document what Pasifika identity means for their family in Australia: the island connection, the community expectations, and what they are building here.
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Pacific Islander families in Australia carry an identity that is constantly negotiating between two worlds: the island culture of origin with its specific obligations, community structures, and spiritual practices, and the Australian context with its very different expectations. Pasifika communities across Sydney, Auckland, and Brisbane have built remarkable cultural institutions — churches, cultural groups, community organizations — while also navigating the specific challenges of being Pacific Islander in Australia: racism, economic marginalization, and the pressure to assimilate while maintaining island ties. This workbook examines what Pasifika families in Australia actually live with and helps them document it.
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Sample questions
- What does Pacific Islander identity mean in your household in Australia — which island nation, which language, which cultural practices?
- What from your Pacific culture does your family actively carry — the language, the church community, the music, the food?
- What do you want the next generation to understand about Pacific Islander identity in Australia — what was nearly lost, and what is most important to keep?
Research basis
Grounded in Berry (1997) acculturation theory, Brah (1996) diaspora cartographies, Anae (1997) scholarship on New Zealand-born Pacific Islander identity applied to Australian context, and Macpherson (2001) research on Pasifika community formation in the diaspora.
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