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Foreword Professor Murray Chapman will retire as Professor of Geography at University of Hawai’i on July 1, 2001. Looking well ahead to that date several of the former students of Professor Murray Chapman approached me in 1997 to edit a volume in honour of his contribution to research on population mobility in the Asia-Pacific region. I was very happy to undertake such a task because along with his former students I believe that he has made a seminal contribution in shaping the ways we conceptualise and study population mobility as well as in advancing our understanding of mobility in this region. My first direct contact with Professor Chapman came in 1973 as a PhD student working in villages in West Java, Indonesia, I was somewhat taken aback in my field research to find that the bulk of the population movement in villages was not of permanent displacement from rural to urban areas but of a variety of temporary movements between village and city. This led me to recast my PhD topic which previously had been based around the testing of a number of theories of rural to urban migration which assumed permanent movement. Recalling some papers that Murray had written on circulation in the then Solomon Islands, I wrote to him. Like so many other students of population mobility in the region I received back a lengthy and detailed response to all my queries, genuine interest and encouragement and a number of his papers on this topic. Both at the time and subsequently I have greatly appreciated the interest and concern that Murray had for an obscure and remote PhD student. This experience of Murray’s generosity and commitment to the development of this field in Asia and the Pacific has been replicated among many others both among his own PhD and Masters students and others across the region. This has led his colleagues and students to put together the present volume to honour his contribution. It is important that it is published in Asia Pacific Viewpoint since this journal closely reflects his interests and concerns. It is also appropriate that it includes contributions from both his colleagues and students and that it spans the Pacific, Southeast and South Asia where his influence has been most pronounced. Author: Graeme Hugo is Professor in the Department of Geographical and Environmental Studies, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005. E-mail: jwall@arts.adelaide.edu.au ß Victoria University of Wellington, 1999. Published by Blackwell Publishers, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JF, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asia Pacific Viewpoint Wiley

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Asia Pacific Viewpoint , Volume 40 (1) – Apr 1, 1999

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Wiley
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Copyright © 1999 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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1360-7456
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1467-8373
DOI
10.1111/1467-8373.00076
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Abstract

Professor Murray Chapman will retire as Professor of Geography at University of Hawai’i on July 1, 2001. Looking well ahead to that date several of the former students of Professor Murray Chapman approached me in 1997 to edit a volume in honour of his contribution to research on population mobility in the Asia-Pacific region. I was very happy to undertake such a task because along with his former students I believe that he has made a seminal contribution in shaping the ways we conceptualise and study population mobility as well as in advancing our understanding of mobility in this region. My first direct contact with Professor Chapman came in 1973 as a PhD student working in villages in West Java, Indonesia, I was somewhat taken aback in my field research to find that the bulk of the population movement in villages was not of permanent displacement from rural to urban areas but of a variety of temporary movements between village and city. This led me to recast my PhD topic which previously had been based around the testing of a number of theories of rural to urban migration which assumed permanent movement. Recalling some papers that Murray had written on circulation in the then Solomon Islands, I wrote to him. Like so many other students of population mobility in the region I received back a lengthy and detailed response to all my queries, genuine interest and encouragement and a number of his papers on this topic. Both at the time and subsequently I have greatly appreciated the interest and concern that Murray had for an obscure and remote PhD student. This experience of Murray’s generosity and commitment to the development of this field in Asia and the Pacific has been replicated among many others both among his own PhD and Masters students and others across the region. This has led his colleagues and students to put together the present volume to honour his contribution. It is important that it is published in Asia Pacific Viewpoint since this journal closely reflects his interests and concerns. It is also appropriate that it includes contributions from both his colleagues and students and that it spans the Pacific, Southeast and South Asia where his influence has been most pronounced. Author: Graeme Hugo is Professor in the Department of Geographical and Environmental Studies, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005. E-mail: jwall@arts.adelaide.edu.au ß Victoria University of Wellington, 1999. Published by Blackwell Publishers, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JF, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA.

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