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Interracial Marriage And Status Exchange: A Study Of Pacific Islanders In Hawai‘I From 1983 To 1994, Xuanning Fu Mar 1999

Interracial Marriage And Status Exchange: A Study Of Pacific Islanders In Hawai‘I From 1983 To 1994, Xuanning Fu

Pacific Studies

Intermarriage is one of the most salient demographic features of Hawai‘i. Between 1983 and 1994, 46 percent of all marriages contracted in Hawai‘i were racially exogamous. This article examines socioeconomic status exchange in outgroup marriage and explores the impact this status change has had on the social well-being of four ethnic groups of Pacific Islanders (Hawaiians, part-Hawaiians, Samoans, and other Pacific Islanders). Status homogamy emerges as the most important pattern of mate selection. In a broad sense, people choose their mates on the basis of equal socioeconomic status, either within or across boundaries of race and ethnicity. Gender differences are …


Reading The Leaves: The Role Of Tongan Women’S Traditional Wealth And Other “Contraflows” In The Processes Of Modern Migration And Remittance, Kerry James Mar 1997

Reading The Leaves: The Role Of Tongan Women’S Traditional Wealth And Other “Contraflows” In The Processes Of Modern Migration And Remittance, Kerry James

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Home Alone: The Effects Of Out-Migration On Niuean Elders’ Living Arrangements And Social Supports, Judith C. Barker Sep 1994

Home Alone: The Effects Of Out-Migration On Niuean Elders’ Living Arrangements And Social Supports, Judith C. Barker

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Changing Patterns Of Commitment To Island Homelands: A Case Study Of Western Samoa, Cluny Macpherson Sep 1994

Changing Patterns Of Commitment To Island Homelands: A Case Study Of Western Samoa, Cluny Macpherson

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


From Sea And Garden To School And Town: Changing Gender And Household Patterns Among Pollap Atoll Migrants, Juliana Flinn Sep 1994

From Sea And Garden To School And Town: Changing Gender And Household Patterns Among Pollap Atoll Migrants, Juliana Flinn

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Population, Migration, And Problems Of Atoll Development In The South Pacific, John Connell Mar 1986

Population, Migration, And Problems Of Atoll Development In The South Pacific, John Connell

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Indian Indenture Historiography: A Note On Problems, Sources And Methods, Brij V. Lal Apr 1983

Indian Indenture Historiography: A Note On Problems, Sources And Methods, Brij V. Lal

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Kay Saunders Review Of Geoffrey Sherington, Australia’S Immigrants 1788–1978, Kay Saunders Sep 1981

Kay Saunders Review Of Geoffrey Sherington, Australia’S Immigrants 1788–1978, Kay Saunders

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.