Primary Sources for Research:
Blackford, Mansel G.. „CHAPTER 6. Guam, the Philippines, and American Samoa„. Pathways to the Present: U.S. Development and Its Consequences in the Pacific, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007, pp. 166-202. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824863906-008
McCarthy, Thomas A.. Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development Thomas McCarthy. 2009. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspxdirect=true&db=edswao&AN=edswao.593085043&lang =de&site=eds-live&scope=site
Memea Kruse, Line-Noue. The Pacific Insular Case of American Sāmoa : Land Rights and Law in Unincorporated US Territories / by Line-Noue Memea Kruse. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat07899a&AN=ulb.1653929340&lang=de&site=eds-live&scope=site.
Yeung, Ivy. “The Price of Citizenship: Would Citizenship Cost American Samoa Its National Identity.” Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, Jan. 2016, pp. 1–34. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edshol&AN=edshol.hein.journals.aplpj17.12&lang=de&site=eds-live&scope=site.
If you want to explore the topic further, gathered some links:
- Here you can watch a short video by HBO comedy host John Oliver. He used comedic relief to pay attention to the territories current situation: A little teaser to know what you can expect: “It’s been 114 years. It’s like for over a century America’s computer has been saying ‘an update to your country is available’ and we’ve been clicking ‘remind me later’ again, again, and again,”
- Click here to watch a 13 min documentation called Stateless Voices: Part Time Americans. This docu gives a brief overview on the citizenship issue, told by different inhabitants of American Samoa.
- Memea Kruse, Line-Noue. The Pacific Insular Case of American Sāmoa : Land Rights and Law in Unincorporated US Territories / by Line-Noue Memea Kruse. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspxdirect=true&db=cat07899a&AN=ulb.1653929340&lang=de&site=eds-live&scope=site. (available on Springer Link)
- The document about the DC Circuit decision by the judges of the case: