Forgotten Bodies : : Imperialism, Chuukese Migration, and Stratified Reproduction in Guam / / Sarah A. Smith.
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 unusually easy, through a unique migration agreement, it keeps them in a perpetual liminal state as nonimm...
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023] 2024 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Medical Anthropology
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (234 p.) :; 21 B-W images |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Imperial Chuukese Bodies, Transnational Migration, and Stratified Reproduction in Guam
- 1. Imperial Occupations
- 2. Imperial Observations
- 3. Imperial Migrations
- 4. Reproducing Imperialism in the Body
- 5. Discourses of Imperial Sexuality
- 6. Contempt, Confusion, and Care in Guam's Imperial Public Healthcare System
- 7. Resisting Imperial Effects
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index