Dados Bibliográficos

AUTOR(ES) ‘Inoke Hafoka , Jacob Fitisemanu , Kehaulani Folau , K. Vaughn , Rhiannon Stephens
AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) University of California, Utah Pacific Islander Health Coalition, The University of Utah
ANO 2020
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO Oceania
ISSN 0029-8077
E-ISSN 1834-4461
DOI 10.1002/ocea.5267
CITAÇÕES 1
ARQUIVOS 2
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-14
MD5 8FF4602EE447B8227027D156E0EB5C3D
MD5 BC39DE798481EF78B03623C23361751E

Resumo

Pacific Islanders in diaspora are disproportionately contracting COVID‐19, experience hospitalization and develop complications. In Utah, Pacific Islanders have the highest contraction rate in the state. Pacific Islanders constitute only 2% of the state's population, but represent 4% of the those infected with COVID‐19, begging the question how we might explain the high rates of contraction? As community engaged scholars and practitioners, we offer discussion, insight, and commentary on the COVID‐19 pandemic affecting Pacific Islanders in Utah. Grounding this discussion is a history of the Pacific Islander community as an essential workforce that dates back to the 1850s, before statehood. We argue that historical discrimination against these early Pacific Islanders shaped the way this group is racialized as essential laborers today. The authors offer this assertion along with practices and protocols that honour cultural norms of socialization, which we see is the pathway to provide safe measures that are relevant to the Utah Pasifika community.


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