Two leading Pacific academics, Tarcisius Kabutaulaka and Katerina Teaiwa, have criticised the security focus of Australia’s 'step up' in the Pacific.

The management, governance and control of the world’s oceans have become major policy and research agendas. Nowhere is this more the case than in the Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest ocean.

The politics of people movement is a defining feature of the 21st Century, with profound ramifications for every country in the Asia Pacific region, including Australia. This collection examines many of the region’s most troubling situations of people on the move while giving considered attention to the opportunities for better national and regional responses.