Forgotten Bodies

Imperialism, Chuukese Migration, and Stratified Reproduction in Guam
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-9788-3260-2
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

Reihe: Medical Anthropology

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 women move to Guam, sometimes with their families, but sometimes alone, in search of a better life: for jobs, the education system, or to access safe health care. Yet, the imperial system they encounter 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Sarah A

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations
Foreword by Lenore Manderson
Introduction: Imperial Chuukese bodies, transnational migration, and stratified reproduction in Guam
Chapter 1: Imperial occupations
Chapter 2: Imperial observations
Chapter 3: Imperial migrations
Chapter 4: Reproducing imperialism in the body
Chapter 5: Discourses of imperial sexuality
Chapter 6: Contempt, confusion, and care in Guam's imperial public health care system
Chapter 7: Resisting imperial effects
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Index