Migration and Disruption on Palawan Island, the Philippines
Migration and Disruption on Palawan Island, the Philippines
A Comparison of Two Cases
This chapter compares the disruptive consequences attending two disparate migrations to Palawan Island in the Philippines. The first has involved agricultural settlement of the island’s forested interior, while the second has seen the movement of various Muslim peoples to the island’s northern towns and coastal regions. While the impact of agricultural migration has been the more disruptive in objective reality, the arrival of Muslim migrants has been perceived as more disruptive, due to their cultural and religious differences with the predominantly Christian host population. Drawing on the notion of societal resilience, the paper also shows that the two streams of migrants have wrought social transformations of a different order. Whereas Muslim migration has only transformed the surface features of recipient communities, agricultural migration has fundamentally reworked both upland ecology and the lives the indigenous peoples.
Keywords: Philippines, Agricultural settlement, Muslims, Transformation, Resilience
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