The Transformation of the 'Métis Question' in New Caledonia, 1853-2009 (original) (raw)

Mixed Race Identities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands

Examining the ways in which " métis " have been problematised in New Caledonia since the colonial era, this chapter shows that, despite their assimilation within the colonial legal categories of citizen and subject, New Caledonia's métis have been far from socially invisible and have been the subject of perennial debate. Particular attention is paid to the transformations that occurred in the colonial era, during the violent " events " of the 1980s and in the wake of the Matignon (1988) and Nouméa (1998) Accords. Rather than causing the " métis question " to disappear, the decolonisation process has given new meaning to expressions of métis identity.

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