ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on aspects of family and gender violence in Chuuk, Micronesia, with particular attention given to young girls’ experiences of family relations and concerns about sexual violence. In Chuuk, family relations, responsibilities and expectations are ordered in line with gender, age and generational positioning within the family and kin network which also define relations to non-kin and the community at large. Fragmentation of society between the poles of urban–rural, educated and non-educated illiterate, affluent and poor, diaspora and domestic, church-going and non-church-going are key markers pointing to the complexity of the social dynamics newly at play in Chuukese society both at home and in the diaspora.
