Forgotten Bodies : : Imperialism, Chuukese Migration, and Stratified Reproduction in Guam /

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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Smith, Sarah A.,
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

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