Citation

Trask HK. Policy Sci. 2000; 33(3-4): 375-385.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1023/A:1004870517612

PMID

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Abstract

With an economy deeply anchored in mass-based, corporate-controlled tourism, the indigenous people find the last of their rural enclaves rapidly diminishing throughout the archipelago. Since about 1970, there has been increasing migration of Hawaiians as better economic conditions are sought on the American continent. Entire Native communities have been dismembered and displaced. Predictable social and cultural problems have resulted, including evictions and rising homelessness among Hawaiians; increases in juvenile delinquency and youth suicides; increases in the prison population; low life expectancy, educational attainment, and employment; and migration that amounts to diaspora. Like most oppressed Native people, Hawaiians are a marginalized, dispossessed group in their own land.

Language: en

Keywords

Hawaii; human capital; indigenous population; migration; United States