Indians first came to Fiji as indentured labourers in 1879. Since the Rabuka coup d’état in 1987, and three subsequent Fiji coups, Indian-Fijians have been emigrating from the country in earnest.

Stopover is a haunting suite of Bruce Connew photographs from the tiny Indian–Fijian sugar cane settlement of Vatiyaka, taken during seven visits between June 2000 and November 2003, placing an extended family inside a story of migration. Connew’s narrative captions and a short story by Brij V Lal, Professor of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University, take the reader to the heart of an embattled life.