Permissive Residents

West Papuan refugees living in Papua New Guinea


Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Glossary
A note on transcription and terms
Prologue: Intoxicating flag
Chapter 1. Speaking historically about West Papua
Chapter 2. Culture as the conscious object of performance
Chapter 3. A flight path
Chapter 4. Sensing displacement
Chapter 5. Refugee settlements as social spaces
Chapter 6. Inscribing the empty rainforest with our history
Chapter 7. Unsated sago appetites
Chapter 8. Becoming translokal
Chapter 9. Permissive residents
Chapter 10. Relocation to connected places
Chapter 11. Being ‘indigenous’ in the Indonesian province of Papua
Coda: Forty-three West Papuans arrive in Australia by outrigger canoe, 2006