Pacific Islanders in the United States
Barringer, Herbert; Gardner, Robert W.; Levin, Michael J. (1993). "Pacific Islanders in the United States". Asians and the Pacific Islanders in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. pp. 268–314. ISBN 978-0-87154-095-9.
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Abstract: "...Census publications before 1980 did not show any Pacific Islander group separately except Hawaiians. Therefore, data for specific Pacific Islander immigrants were available for the first time after the 1980 Cen- sus. After all 1990 results are available, we will be able to see trends for the first time. Unfortunately, as of this writing, only limited Pacific Is- lander counts are available for various geographic levels. Three large geographical areas identify Pacific Islanders. Polynesia, the largest in area, covers a large triangle with Hawaii, New Zealand, and Pitcairn Islands forming the three points. The United States terri- tory of American Samoa is in Polynesia. Micronesia is a large oval at the equator, consisting of the U.S. ter- ritory of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands CNMI), the freely associated states of the Federated States of Microne- sia (FSM) and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau (held as a strategic trust territory by the United States for the United Nations), and Kiribati, a former British colony. Melanesia, the largest in population, is south of Micronesia and to the west of Polynesia. No 1990 counts are yet available for these three areas. In 1980, the Pacific Islander population in the United States was about 85 percent Polynesian, 14 percent Micronesian, and 1 percent Melanesian. Of the 270,278 Polynesians in 1980, Hawaiians (172,346), Samoans (39,520), and Tongans (6,226) were the largest groups. Among the 35,508 persons of Micronesian background, more than 8 of every 10 were Guamanian. The Fijian population was the largest Melanesian group, with a total of 2,834...."
"...This chapter will focus on characteristics of Samoans, Tongans, Guamanians, and other Micronesians. The "Micronesian" category as defined for this paper includes all non-Guamanian Micronesians. Data on Hawaiians, the native American Polynesian group, show comparisons..."
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DOI: 10.2307/2580569 MAG: 2094989500 CorpusID: 33347474 OpenAlex: W4230657687
