an
Emphasis will be placed on the youth experiences.
The basic
approach of
the project will
be
longitudinal
and will omphasize an interdisciplinary rescarch perspective.
Ethnographic and functional analysis at the individual,
and
cultural
levels will
also be utilized.
The two
social
principal
investigators for the project will be a psychologist and an
anthropologist.
health,
Research scientists from the fields of public
sociclogy and clinical psychiatry could also play a role.
The principal. objects of the study will be the full range of
rehabitation developmental
ing Marshallese as
networks,
These processes include individual coping
interpersonal
interaction patterns,
resocialization procedures,
intergroup relations,
norm formation,
“study will
be
and value ucneration.
insofar as
tation processes.
tended consequences of
assistance
territorial
patterns,
programs offered
affect
their
attention will be given
these programs
family
Secondary objects of
these programs
Particular
extended
social control techniques,
sustenance activities,
the governmental
the returnees,
the return-
they attempt to re-establish their tradi-
tional communities.
behaviors,
processes occurring among
to
rehabite unin-
such'as dependency or
conflict.
Measurement
techniques
field observation,
open-ended
records,
in
this project will
participant observation,
interviews,
and
employed
self-reports,
include
structured interviews,
biodocumentarics,
official
critical-event documentation.
Federal agencies and territorial officials anticipate the
total
resettlement
to occur within
VOTT EL
the next
four years.
The