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

Autor Sarah A. Smith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 noi 2023 – vârsta ani
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781978832602
ISBN-10: 1978832605
Pagini: 234
Ilustrații: 21 B-W images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.05 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Medical Anthropology


Notă biografică

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. 

Recenzii

"[The] book's great strength lies in making visible the evocative power of Chuukese women’s voices, experiences, and everyday encounters to allow each of us to comprehend their perspectives as we seek to reorder our lives in pursuit of a more just world."
"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."
"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. "

Descriere

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.