Building Sense Out of Households

Migrants from Chuuk (Re)create Local Settlements in Guam

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ID2280671
AuthorsLola Quan Bautista (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume23
Issue1
Pages66-90
Publication date2011-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCity & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0893-0465 • E-ISSN: 1548-744X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-744x.2011.01049.x
OpenAlexW1836763797
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited22

This article focuses on a newly created subdivision in the Territory of Guam made up mostly of migrants from the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). It aims to discover how migrants, particularly those from Chuuk, interpret cultural and social change within a process commonly known as urbanization and modernization. This research looks to the built environment, in particular, the housing, as an important element in the study of migrant communities. I also explore gendered ideologies and how migrants conceive of their spatial arrangements and household dwellings. Through a consideration of ethnographic data on households and house forms, and organizational features of the origin islands of Chuuk, I argue that urban housing and space is socially produced

Archaeology · Business · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Ethnography · Geography · Human settlement · Ideology · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Subdivision · Urbanization · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Migration and Labor Dynamics

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