ISBN:
9781978832602
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9781978832619
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 213 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Medical anthropology
DDC:
306.4/61
Keywords:
Medical anthropology
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Imperialism Health aspects
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Women, Chuukese Social conditions
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Birth control Government policy
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Chuukese (Micronesian people) Social life and customs
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Ethnology
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Ethnic Studies
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Ethnic studies
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Illness & addiction: social aspects
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Krankheit und Sucht: soziale Aspekte
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MEDICAL / Public Health
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Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung
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Migration, immigration & emigration
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Public Health und Präventivmedizin
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Public health & preventive medicine
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SOC008020
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SOC008030
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SOC057000
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies
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Social & cultural history
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Society & culture: general
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Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
Abstract:
"Women from Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia who migrate to Guam, a U.S. territory, suffer disproportionately poor reproductive health outcomes. Though their access to the United States is uniquely easy, through a unique migration agreement, it keeps them in a perpetual liminal state as nonimmigrants, who never fully belong as part of the U.S. Chuukese families move to Guam in search of a better life: sometimes for jobs, the education system, or to access safe health care. Yet, the imperial system of benign neglect creates underlying conditions that greatly and disproportionately impact their ability to succeed and thrive, negatively impacting their reproductive health. Through clinical and community ethnography, Sarah A. Smith illuminates the way this system stratifies women's reproduction at structural, social, and individual levels. Readers can visualize how U.S. imperialist policies of benign neglect control the body politic, change the social body, and render individual bodies vulnerable in the twenty-first century, but also, how people resist"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword / by Lenore Manderson -- Introduction: Imperial Chuukese bodies, transnational migration, and stratified reproduction in Guam -- Imperial occupations -- Imperial observations -- Imperial migrations -- Reproducing imperialism in the body -- Discourses of imperial sexuality -- Contempt, confusion, and care in Guam's imperial public health care system -- Resisting imperial effects.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Zielgruppe: 5PB-US-D, Bezug zu asiatischen Amerikanern
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