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A PRELIMINARY PROPOSAL
Effects of
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Resettlement of Marshall
Island
Youth in a High Risk Environment
Joseph &. Trimble and Robert Kiste
Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers
Seattle, Washington
The
Problem
In 1946,
in
the small community.that inhabited Bikini Atoll
the northern Marshall
homeland was
Y¥slands was relocated when
selected as
site in the Pacific.
quently relocated
as
the United States'
its
ancestral
first nuclear
test
Numerous other Marshallese were subsethese
tests
continued.
Prior to relocation
the Marshallese were an isolated people having relatively little
contact with outsiders,
multiple relocations
but since 1946 they have experienced
that have
altered
their
traditional
living
patterns in numerous ways.
The original
the name of vital
for
relocation of
scientific
their psychological,
these
research,
social,
people was
without
conducted in
serious
or economic welfare.
regard
Although
a number of research efforts have investigated theixs subsequent
adjustment problems,
plan
for
return
the
to
rehabitation of
return home,
studies
produced a
the Marshallese or
small groups of
systematic
their eventual
these people
are beginning
to
without benefit of adequate economic or social preConsequently,
numerous problems
family and
these
their homeland.
This year,
paratilons.
none of
of
they will undoulbtedly
experience
personal and collective readjustment.
home patterns,
work ackivities,
community
Their
structures,
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