Author: PalauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Palau
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Compact of Free Association with Palau
Compacts of Free Association with the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
America's Pacific Island Allies
Author: Derek GrossmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781977402288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Freely Associated States--the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau--have been the subject of increasing Chinese influence. The authors examine the implications of these activities for defense and foreign policy interests of the United States.
Micronesians on the Move
Author: Francis X. HezelPublisher:
ISBN: 9780866382311
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Is rising emigration proof of a Pacific Island nation's failure to fulfill its economic promise and provide the jobs that its citizens seek in a modernized society? Or is it a legitimate alternative development strategy that depends on the export of surplus labor in lieu of the more conventional methods recommended by donor nations and international financial institutions? In this report, Francis X. Hezel, SJ, sheds light on these questions by reviewing the 30-year history of migration from one Pacific Island nation, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and examining the current status of its migrants. Hezel reports that although out-migration from the FSM began in small numbers in 1980, the outflow intensified when the Compact of Free Association went into effect in 1986. In return for exclusive strategic access by the United States, the Compact granted FSM citizens free entry into the United States and its territories to establish residence and work. This report traces the growth of the early Micronesian communities on Guam and Saipan, and the subsequent migration eastward to Hawaiʻi and the continental United States. Today, one-third of all people born in the FSM live outside their island nation. Hezel presents the results of a groundbreaking 2012 survey of Micronesian migrants, showing that an ever-increasing segment of the migrant population is putting down roots in the US mainland. There, despite difficulties they encounter, these individuals and families are able to find more plentiful jobs, a reduced cost of living, and an environment without some of the negative stereotypes that grip fellow migrants in Guam and Hawaiʻi. Hezel tracks the changes in their living conditions and shows that even if Micronesian migration continues at the same pace as in the past, it is clear that the living conditions of these FSM citizens are improving, as are their potential contributions to American society and to their friends and family back home.
American Anthropology in Micronesia
Author: Robert KistePublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824861426
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
This text evaluates how anthropological research in the Trust Territory has affected the Micronesian people, the US colonial administration and the discipline of anthropology itself. It analyzes the interplay between anthropology and history, in particular how American colonialism affected anthropologists' use of history, and examines the research that has been conducted by American anthropologists in specific topical areas of sociocultural anthropology. The text concentrates on disciplinary concerns, but also considers the connections between work done in the era of applied anthropology and that completed later when anthropology was persued mainly for its own sake.
Leadership in the Pacific Islands
Author: Donald R. ShusterPublisher: National Centre for Development Studies Research S Acific St
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Strengthening Pacific Fragile States
Author: Asian Development BankPublisher:
ISBN: 9789715618533
Category : Economic assistance
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What We Bury at Night
Author: Julian AguonPublisher:
ISBN: 9784902837674
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This series of essays describes the present-day realities of the U.S.-Micronesia relationship as seen through the eyes of those who live through the continuing harm of the U.S. colonial project in Micronesia.
Compact of Free Association in the Micronesian States of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands
Author: Remaking Micronesia
Author: David L. HanlonPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824820114
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
America's efforts at economic development in the Caroline, Mariana, and Marshall Islands proved to be about transforming in dramatic fashion people who occupied real estate deemed vital to American strategic concerns. Called "Micronesians," these island people were regarded as other, and their otherness came to be seen as incompatible with American interests. And so, underneath the liberal rhetoric that surrounded arguments, proposals, and programs for economic development was a deeper purpose. America's domination would be sustained by the remaking of these islands into places that had the look, feel, sound, speed, smell, and taste of America - had the many and varied plans actually succeeded. However, the gap between intent and effect holds a rich and deeply entangled history. Remaking Micronesia stands as an important, imaginative, much needed contribution to the study of Micronesia, American policy in the Pacific, and the larger debate about development. It will be an important source of insight and critique for scholars and students working at the intersection of history, culture, and power in the Pacific.