title: Contract labor recruitment from the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, 1950-1974.
abstract: The author examines the social, economic, and political context surrounding a contract labor system implemented in Papua New Guinea that was begun in the 1950s.  "In its 25 years of operation the Highland Labour Scheme provided the mechanism whereby some 100,000 men migrated temporarily from their highland homes to work in the coastal districts of Papua New Guinea.  This was a circular migration within their own country, for labor purposes only.  The men did not take their families with them, and there was no element of redistribution of population from a highly populated area as there has been in migration schemes in the adjoining areas of Southeast Asia...."
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Ward
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D006280:Health Workforce; D008542:Melanesia; D010139:Pacific Islands; D010219:Papua New Guinea; D011057:Politics; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012922:Social Change; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Conditions; Economic Factors; Human Resources; International Migration; Labor Force; Labor Migration; Macroeconomic Factors; Melanesia; Migrant Workers; Migration; Oceania; Papua New Guinea; Political Factors; Population; Population Dynamics; Social Development