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

9422660.这个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意义的重要问题。这项研究将公民身份视为一套实践(司法、政治、经济和文化)，体现了法律、政治和文化中广泛的现代化进程。它认为人，或土著身份，是一套抵制、适当和改变文明习俗的做法。这项研究将法律和社会科学历史中叙事研究的新理论和方法与公民身份的实证研究结合在一起。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文件研究来征求和收集叙述。将审查这些叙述，看它们揭示了关岛人民如何理解他们的政治地位，以及他们在提出权利主张时如何代表自己的身份。这项研究将集中在权利诉求的事件上，这将使人们能够批判性地分析T·H·马歇尔关于公民、政治和社会权利演变的理论叙述的适用性。这项研究将调查关岛人民如何寻求改变其政治地位，以加强1950年给予他们的公民身份的福利和宪法保护。它还将分析查莫鲁人是如何努力实现联邦政府承认他们作为岛上土著人民的地位和自决权的，它将试图解释为什么这两套可能相互冲突的权利主张趋同，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上公民身份、成员资格和庄严的意义是什么。***

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. ***