In both codes of Rugby, players from Pacific Islands are renowned for their playing talent, as are the national teams of Fiji, Tonga and Manu Samoa along with the New Zealand Maori. The Wallabies, the All Blacks and the Super 14 teams from both nations are replete with players of Pacific Island heritage (Pasifikas). In the National Rugby League (NRL) it is estimated that 40 percent of players in the 25-man squads at the the 15 clubs emanate from a Pasifika background, while at the junior representative levels the number is now over 50 per cent. This article reflects upon issues that are emerging from this ever-growing presence of Pasifikas at the elite levels of Australian Rugby, though with particular focus on the Union game. This includes...
Rugby is a sport that has given Fiji international recognition. The professionalisation of rugby has...
This paper explores historical and contemporary connections between Irish rugby and the Pacific Isla...
Rugby is a sport that has given Fiji international recognition. The professionalisation of rugby has...
In both codes of Rugby, players from Pacific Islands are renowned for their playing talent, as are t...
This article investigates the sociocultural motivations of the Pasifika diaspora in Australian sport...
© 2014 by University of Hawai‘i Press. This article investigates the sociocultural motivations of th...
The newly emergent Pasifika diasporas as elements of a new sports labour migrant are an important fo...
Since the 1980s, the sport of rugby league has become increasingly popular with players of Polynesia...
The emergence of Pacific Island (PI) ethnicities in the National Rugby League (NRL) over the past 18...
Football (rugby league) shares performative acts of service with faith and family that are significa...
During the late 1970s, thousands of—in many cases legal—Samoan immigrants were systematically evicte...
This In Brief outlines some of the collaborative projects between SSGM and NRL under the NRL Pasifik...
In Australia and New Zealand recognition of Polynesians is almost exclusively defined by their physi...
Rugby is widely regarded as Fiji’s ‘national’ sport and Fijian athletes are a prominent global prese...
Drawing on two separate projects, this paper considers how the inter-related logic of sport (particu...
Rugby is a sport that has given Fiji international recognition. The professionalisation of rugby has...
This paper explores historical and contemporary connections between Irish rugby and the Pacific Isla...
Rugby is a sport that has given Fiji international recognition. The professionalisation of rugby has...
In both codes of Rugby, players from Pacific Islands are renowned for their playing talent, as are t...
This article investigates the sociocultural motivations of the Pasifika diaspora in Australian sport...
© 2014 by University of Hawai‘i Press. This article investigates the sociocultural motivations of th...
The newly emergent Pasifika diasporas as elements of a new sports labour migrant are an important fo...
Since the 1980s, the sport of rugby league has become increasingly popular with players of Polynesia...
The emergence of Pacific Island (PI) ethnicities in the National Rugby League (NRL) over the past 18...
Football (rugby league) shares performative acts of service with faith and family that are significa...
During the late 1970s, thousands of—in many cases legal—Samoan immigrants were systematically evicte...
This In Brief outlines some of the collaborative projects between SSGM and NRL under the NRL Pasifik...
In Australia and New Zealand recognition of Polynesians is almost exclusively defined by their physi...
Rugby is widely regarded as Fiji’s ‘national’ sport and Fijian athletes are a prominent global prese...
Drawing on two separate projects, this paper considers how the inter-related logic of sport (particu...
Rugby is a sport that has given Fiji international recognition. The professionalisation of rugby has...
This paper explores historical and contemporary connections between Irish rugby and the Pacific Isla...
Rugby is a sport that has given Fiji international recognition. The professionalisation of rugby has...