ABSTRACT
Samoa is a small, independent south Pacicstate.1 Its population is around 190,000 and, as a consequence of post-World War II migration, another 200,000 people of Samoan descent live in expatriate settlements around the Pacic Rim.2 The formation of expatriate, diasporic communities, their discrete histories and different organizational structures (Fitzgerald and Howard 1990), has been well-documented over the last 40 years. They have been proled in New Zealand (Pitt and Macpherson 1974; Macpherson 1978; Ministry Of Pacic Island Affairs 1999); California (Shu and Satele 1977; Rolff 1978); Seattle (Kotchek 1982); Hawaii (Forster 1954; Blumbaum 1973; Franco 1987; Franco 1990); Australia (Va’a 2001); Fiji (Tuimaleai’ifano 1990) and Papua New Guinea (Sinclair 1982).
