Climate change is a contributing factor in Pacific Islanders choosing to move to Australia.
"If our people are affected by sea level rise, we don't have a place to go," Anterea told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from her home in Kiribati's capital, Tarawa. That makes the offer of even temporary work an attractive prospect in countries like Fiji where youth unemployment surged to 37% in 2020, according to the Asian Development Bank .The mass departure of skilled professionals, especially digital workers, is a worrying trend, Fiji's Deputy Prime Minister Manoa Kamikamica said earlier this month.
Many are highly qualified workers seeking better job opportunities overseas, posing a problem for small island countries that have been struggling for years to retain a skilled workforce, said Curtain, who has researched brain drain in the Pacific region at the Australian National University.An overview of the challenges and opportunities of the climate crisis, as it changes the world we know.
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