ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses western understandings of the relationships between gender and sexuality become embedded in Samoan ways of thinking, the sexual relations that are considered 'appropriate' for fa'afafine are beginning to exclude women. It outlines some of the over-arching systems which frame these micro-practices, drawing links between the lived experiences of the fa'afafine. In New Zealand, migrant fa'afafine negotiate between the demands of the Samoan community, the hegemonic structures of western gender frameworks, and their own sense of themselves as family members, as Samoan, as feminine, and as social actors attempting to meet their own individuals and various needs. While the details of these practices are unique to these individual participants, to contemporary fa'afafine, to Samoans, to transgendered people, to cross-cultural migrants, or to other specific categories of persons, the processes themselves are universal.
