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

9422660 Schepple这个项目的目的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。本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、政治和文化的广泛现代化进程。它将人民身份或土著身份视为一套抵制、适应和改变公民身份实践的实践。该研究将新的理论和方法方法结合起来，以法律和社会科学史的叙事研究与公民身份的实证研究。这项研究包括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征集和收集叙述。将对这些叙述进行审查，以了解它们如何揭示关岛人民如何理解其政治地位以及他们如何在提出权利要求时代表其身份。该研究将侧重于权利要求寻求的事件，这将有助于对马歇尔关于公民、政治和社会权利演变的理论叙述的适用性进行批判性分析。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年给予他们的公民地位的福利和宪法保护。它还将分析查莫罗人民如何努力使联邦承认他们作为岛上土著人民的地位和自决权，并将设法解释为什么这两套可能相互冲突的权利要求正在汇合，提出这些要求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，关岛寻求联邦地位对美国及其领土的公民权、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. ***