New destinations of empire : mobilities, racial geographies, and citizenship in the transpacific United States / Emily Mitchell-Eaton.
2024
JC359 .M565 2024
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Title
New destinations of empire : mobilities, racial geographies, and citizenship in the transpacific United States / Emily Mitchell-Eaton.
ISBN
9780820366920 electronic book
0820366927 electronic book
9780820374581 electronic book
082037458X electronic book
0820366927 electronic book
9780820374581 electronic book
082037458X electronic book
Published
Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2024]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Call Number
JC359 .M565 2024
Dewey Decimal Classification
325/.373
Summary
"In 1986, the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, while simultaneously re-entrenching imperial power dynamics between the two countries. The U.S.-RMI Compact at once enshrined exclusive U.S. military access to the islands and established the right of 'visa-free' migration to the U.S. for Marshallese citizens, creating a Marshallese diaspora whose largest population resettled in the seemingly unlikely destination of Springdale, Arkansas. An 'all-white town' by design for much of the 20th century, Springdale has been remade by Marshallese as well as Latinx immigration, having nearly quadrupled in size since 1980. Through ethnographic, policy-based, and archival research in Guêahan, Saipan, Hawai'i, Arkansas, and Washington, D.C., New Destinations of Empire tells the story of these place-based transformations, revealing how U.S. empire both enables and constrains mobility for its subjects, shaping migrants' experiences of racialization, citizenship, and belonging in new destinations of empire. In examining two spatial processes-imperialism and migration-together, Mitchell-Eaton reveals connections and flows between presumably distant, 'remote' sites like Arkansas and the Marshall Islands, showing them to be central to the U.S.'s most urgent political issues: immigration, racial justice, militarization, and decolonization"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 13, 2024).
Series
Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 64.
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Table of Contents
Mapping imperial migrations from the Pacific to the United States
How "free" is freely associated statehood? The compact of free association and its colonial past
"We are here because you were there": War, labor, migration, and empire in the natural state
"Of all places!": Springdale, Arkansas, as a new destination of empire
"No such thing as an illegal Marshallese": COFA status as imperial citizenship
New transpacific destinations and the future of imperial mobilities.
How "free" is freely associated statehood? The compact of free association and its colonial past
"We are here because you were there": War, labor, migration, and empire in the natural state
"Of all places!": Springdale, Arkansas, as a new destination of empire
"No such thing as an illegal Marshallese": COFA status as imperial citizenship
New transpacific destinations and the future of imperial mobilities.