A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
This paper demonstrates that key models of human mobility across several disciplines can be considered as specific cases of a broader conceptualisation of mobility in terms of its contribution to wellbeing. It is argued that this wellbeing perspective offers important advantages for the formulation...
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| author | Dockery, Alfred Michael |
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| description | This paper demonstrates that key models of human mobility across several disciplines can be considered as specific cases of a broader conceptualisation of mobility in terms of its contribution to wellbeing. It is argued that this wellbeing perspective offers important advantages for the formulation of policy in areas that must respond to mobility in cross-cultural contexts, and particularly in regard to policy relating to highly mobile, indigenous peoples. An applied example is provided through a discussion of how this conceptualisation of mobility offers a different understanding of the mobility of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, one that may have led to superior policy outcomes. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-173682019-02-19T05:34:59Z A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians Dockery, Alfred Michael Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander First Nations Wellbeing Mobility Indigenous Australia This paper demonstrates that key models of human mobility across several disciplines can be considered as specific cases of a broader conceptualisation of mobility in terms of its contribution to wellbeing. It is argued that this wellbeing perspective offers important advantages for the formulation of policy in areas that must respond to mobility in cross-cultural contexts, and particularly in regard to policy relating to highly mobile, indigenous peoples. An applied example is provided through a discussion of how this conceptualisation of mobility offers a different understanding of the mobility of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, one that may have led to superior policy outcomes. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17368 10.1007/s11205-014-0839-8 Springer Netherlands fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander First Nations Wellbeing Mobility Indigenous Australia Dockery, Alfred Michael A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians |
| title | A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians |
| title_full | A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians |
| title_fullStr | A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians |
| title_short | A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians |
| title_sort | wellbeing approach to mobility and its application to aboriginal and torres strait islander australians |
| topic | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander First Nations Wellbeing Mobility Indigenous Australia |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17368 |