Doctoral Dissertation Research: Constructions of Citizenship and Peoplehood in Guam's Quest for Commonwealth

9422660 Schepple本项目的目标是通过对关岛人民的个案研究，调查有关公民权利和基本含义的重要问题。 本研究认为，公民身份是一套做法（司法，政治，经济和文化），体现了广泛的现代化进程中的法律，政治和文化。 它认为人民身份，或土著身份，作为一套做法，抵制，适当的，并改变公民身份的做法。 该研究将法律和社会科学史中的叙事研究的新理论和方法与公民身份的实证研究结合起来。 这项研究涉及通过个人和焦点小组访谈以及通过在关岛和选定的大陆地点进行的文件研究征求和收集叙述。 将对这些叙述进行审查，以了解它们揭示了关岛人民如何理解其政治地位，以及他们在提出权利主张时如何代表自己的身份。 这项研究将集中在寻求权利主张的情节，这将使T的适用性的批判性分析。H.马歇尔对公民、政治和社会权利演变的理论叙述。 本研究报告将调查关岛人民如何寻求改变其政治地位，以加强1950年给予他们的公民地位的福利和宪法保护。 报告还将分析查莫罗人民如何努力争取联邦承认他们作为该岛土著人民的地位及其自决权，并将设法解释为什么这两套可能相互冲突的权利主张会汇合在一起，提出这些主张的历史和体制背景是什么，这些背景如何影响关岛人民如何理解他们的政治身份，以及关岛对联邦地位的追求对美国及其领土的公民身份，成员资格和主权的意义意味着什么。 ***

9422660 Schepple The objective of this project is to investigate important questions about the rights and basic meaning of citizenship through a case study of the people of Guam. This study views citizenship as a set of practices (juridical, political, economic, and cultural) that embody a wide range of modernizing processes in law, politics and culture. It views peoplehood, or indigenous identity, as a set of practices that resist, appropriate, and transform citixenship practices. The research draws together new theoretical and methodological approaches to narrative studies in law and in social science history with empirical studies in citizenship. This study involved the solicitation and collection of narratives through individual and focus group interviews and through document study in Guam and selected mainland sites. These narratives will be examined for what they reveal about how the people of Guam understand their political status and how they represent their identities in making rights claims. The study will focus on episodes of rights claim seeking that will enable a critical analysis of the applicability of T. H. Marshall's theoretical narrative of the evolution of civil, political and social rights. %%% This study will investigate how the people of Guam are seeking a change in their political status to achieve an enhancement of the benefits and constitutional protections of the citizenship status granted them in 1950. It will also analyze how the Chamoru people are working to achieve federal recognition of their status as the indigenous people of the island and of their right to self-determination, It will seek to explain why these two sets of possibly conflicting claims to rights are converging, what are the historical and institutional contexts in which these claims are made, how these contexts affect how the people of Guam understand their political identities, and what Guam's quest for commonwealth status signifies for the meaning of citizenship, membership, and sovere ignty in the United States and its territories. ***