Women from Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia move to Guam, U.S. for several reasons, including access to better healthcare. Yet, they suffer disproportionately poor reproductive health outcomes in Guam. Forgotten Bodies illuminates how benign neglect, imperial citizenship, transnational migration, and gender inequities intersect, cohere, and compound to stratify Chuukese women’s reproductive health.
Women from Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia move to Guam, U.S. for several reasons, including access to better healthcare. Yet, they suffer disproportionately poor reproductive health outcomes in Guam. Forgotten Bodies illuminates how benign neglect, imperial citizenship, transnational migration, and gender inequities intersect, cohere, and compound to stratify Chuukese women’s reproductive health.
SARAH A. SMITH is the chair and an associate professor of public health and codirector of the Health Disparities Research Institute at SUNY Old Westbury.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword by Lenore Manderson 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
Foreword by Lenore Manderson 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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