Migration and social transformation in the contemporary Pacific
Massey University Professorial Lecture Series
Professor Cluny Macpherson
Albany
Thursday 20th September
7.00–9.00 pm
Change in Pacific societies has been occurring continuously since humans settled and began to move around in the region thousands of years ago.
Contemporary changes, driven by increasing levels of migration, are however both more rapid and dramatic than at any time in the past. This lecture explores the role and impact of migration on social change in the modern Pacific.
Cluny Macpherson first went to work in Samoa in 1965 and has been working there, studying and teaching about the Pacific region ever since. He spent 30 years teaching at the University of Auckland, before moving to a chair in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Massey University in 2004.
In 2005, he was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Sir Peter Buck Medal for ‘a major contribution to research on social, cultural and economic development of New Zealand and the Pacific’.