{"id":59940,"date":"2023-11-19T04:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/19\/stay-or-go-offered-a-future-away-from-home-tuvalus-people-face-a-painful-choice"},"modified":"2023-11-19T04:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T19:00:28","slug":"stay-or-go-offered-a-future-away-from-home-tuvalus-people-face-a-painful-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59940","title":{"rendered":"Stay or go? Offered a future away from home, Tuvalu\u2019s people face a painful choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s visa offer to residents of the Pacific island nation in the face of the climate crisis stokes mixed emotions<\/p>\n<p>For many years, residents of Tuvalu have been aware of a threat hanging over their country: if nothing is done to combat the climate crisis, their islands in the Pacific Ocean could one day be swallowed by the sea.<\/p>\n<p>As the urgency of the climate threat rises, last week Australia offered up to 280 citizens each year from Tuvalu access to live, study and work in the country<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/nov\/10\/tuvalu-residency-and-security-treaty-what-is-it-and-why-is-australia-doing-it\"> as part of a sweeping treaty.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/19\/stay-or-go-offered-a-future-away-from-home-tuvalus-people-face-a-painful-choice\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s visa offer to residents of the Pacific island nation in the face of the climate crisis stokes mixed emotionsFor many years, residents of Tuvalu have been aware of a threat hanging over their country: if nothing is done to combat the climate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,645,388,2331,65,491,874,563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-migration","category-pacific-islands","category-tuvalu"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59941,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59940\/revisions\/59941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}