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

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Sarah A. Smith

Forgotten Bodies

Imperialism, Chuukese Migration, and Stratified Reproduction in Guam

Sarah A. Smith

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Rutgers University Press
20 November 2023

Social & cultural history; Society & culture: general; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Migration, immigration & emigration; Ethnic studies

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 nonimmigrants, who never fully belong as part of the United States Chuukese women move to Guam, sometimes with their families but sometimes alone, in search of a better life: for jobs, for 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.

By: Sarah A. Smith
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 50g
ISBN: 9781978832602
ISBN 10: 1978832605
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 20 November 2023
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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

"""Based in deep ethnographic research, Smith's essential book challenges us to understand Chuukese women's poor reproductive health chances as a result of a broad set of imperial forces. We learn so much from this book about the gender and health damages the U.S. empire has wrought in Guam, Chuuk, and elsewhere in Micronesia."" -- Catherine Lutz * coeditor of War and Health: The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan * ""Written with clarity, compassion, and theoretical acuity, Forgotten Bodies describes the reproductive health disparities of Micronesian migrant women in Guam, set within wider stories of imperialism, colonialism, and racism. This book will be valuable to students of decolonizing anthropology and Pacific Studies, to health practitioners committed to more equitable and adequate care, and to anyone who cares about the lives, struggles, and strengths of Chuukese women. "" -- Don Rubinstein * professor of Micronesian Studies at University of Guam *"