Migration, Digitalization, and Sustainable Development Across Pacific Islands

This chapter explores the opportunities, experiences, and prospects of digitalization in transforming the relationship between migration and sustainable development across Pacific Island countries and territories. We consider how digitalization, understood as integrating digital data and technologies into daily life, is transforming the migration–development nexus framework beyond the earlier migration, remittances, aid, and bureaucracy model to enable enhanced information exchange, digital remitting, digital economy, digital residence, and the digital management of migration. Across Pacific islands, realizing the potential for sustainable development means considering digital access, utilization and datafication, stakeholder coordination, and the fragmentation of knowledge.