Marshall Islanders

• The tragic confusion of adoption from the Marshall Islands, by Elizabeth Peet. Wilson Quarterly, June 25, 2015. For Marshall Islanders in the United States, cultural misunderstandings have curdled into exploitation, raising difficult questions about America’s immigration and integration policies. (Read)
   
• Marshall Islanders: Migration Patterns and Health-Care Challenges, by Michael R. Duke. Migration Policy Institute, May 22, 2014. Approximately one-third of the population of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, a series of islands and atolls in the Pacific, has relocated to the United States, with Hawaii and Guam key destinations as well as - perhaps more surprisingly - Arkansas. Lack of economic and employment opportunities are among the leading factors that have prompted this dramatic outmigration, enabled by the Compact of Free Association (COFA). (Read)
   
• For Pacific Islanders, Hopes and Troubles in Arkansas, by Bret Schulte. NY Times, July 4, 2012. The islands and the United States have been intertwined since World War II. The United States has detonated at least 67 nuclear bombs in its 750,000-square-mile territory. The radioactive fallout rendered some islands uninhabitable. And United States military operations there are powered by American processed food, beloved by locals but blamed for the explosion in diabetes. (Read)