ABSTRACT
This consolidation of groundbreaking research on Indigenous peoples’ mobility in Australasia and North America provides a framework for eliciting emergent research themes. To this end, we are guided by Skeldon’s (1997: 17-40) global exploration of the links between migration and development in which he identifies several theoretical and conceptual approaches to analysis. These he labels as economic approaches, studies of diaspora, transition theory, and postmodernist views. In this schema he identifies a tendency to shift over time from simple, if rigorous, economic models, towards more complex, but more subjective approaches. Also noted is a clear demarcation in approach between those studies focused on internal and those focused on international population movements.
