A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
Abstract 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 for...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:spr:soinre:v:125:y:2016:i:1:d:10.1007_s11205-014-0839-8 2023-05-15T16:16:04+02:00 A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians Alfred Michael Dockery http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11205-014-0839-8 unknown http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11205-014-0839-8 article ftrepec 2020-12-04T13:31:01Z Abstract 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. Mobility, Wellbeing, First Nations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Indigenous, Australia Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) |
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Abstract 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. Mobility, Wellbeing, First Nations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Indigenous, Australia |
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Alfred Michael Dockery |
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Alfred Michael Dockery A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians |
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Alfred Michael Dockery |
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Alfred Michael Dockery |
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A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians |
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A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians |
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A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians |
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A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians |
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A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians |
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wellbeing approach to mobility and its application to aboriginal and torres strait islander australians |
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