Collection breakdown
The Walden University Library contains a large, diverse collection of books, journals, and other materials related to Pacific Islanders. Scroll down to view the collection, which has been broken down into subject areas and material types.
Note: The materials listed below are by no means an exhaustive representation of the materials found in the Walden University Library. Presented below is a curated list of resources designed to highlight aspects of our collection that relate directly to Pacific Islanders.
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Pacific Islander studies journals
- Asia Pacific Perspectives
- Asia-Pacific Population Journal
- Asia-Pacific Review
- Asia Pacific Viewpoint
- Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
- The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs
- Harvard Asia Pacific Review
- International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
- Intersections: Gender & Sexuality in Asia & the Pacific
- The Journal of Pacific History
- Pacific Affairs
- Pacific Asia Inquiry
- Pacific Focus
- Pacific Geographies
Multi-Database Search Tool
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Business & management
- An analysis of the effects of a corporate fitness program in Hawaii
- Attitudes toward federal government privatization reform policies among federal civil servants and AFGE labor union members within the Department of Defense in Oahu, Hawaii
- Business strategies for ASEAN's single window in Southeast Asia
- The effects of organizational downsizing on Asian Pacific American middle managers in the federal government
- Engagement strategies for catalyzing IT sales team performance in Asia
- Job satisfaction among American, European, and Japanese expatriates employed in the petroleum industry with operations in southeast Asia
- A Quantitative study of the relationship of work ethic, worker retention, and job satisfaction in the native Hawaiian population
- Stakeholder collaboration strategies in the Hawaii tourism industry
- Asia Pacific Business Review
- Asia-Pacific Financial Markets
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration
- Asia Pacific Journal of Finance and Banking Research
- Asia Pacific Journal of Management
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Rural Development
- Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research
- Asian Pacific Economic Literature
- Journal of Asia-Pacific Business
- Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy
- Journal of Asia Pacific Marketing
- Market: Asia Pacific
- Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets & Policies
- Business in the Asia Pacific
- Business, markets and government in the Asia-Pacific: Competition policy, convergence and pluralism
- Cheap meat: Flap food nations in the Pacific Islands
- Citizens, democracy, and markets around the Pacific Rim: Congruence theory and political culture
- Crisis, recovery and the role of accounting firms in the Pacific Basin
- Emerging nanotechnology power: Nanotechnology R&D and business trends in the Asia Pacific Rim
- Japan and the Pacific free trade area
- Networks, markets, and the Pacific Rim: Studies in strategy
- Pacific Island countries: Possible common currency arrangement
- Pacific Island economies
- Pacific Rim: Investment, development, and trade
- The people trade: Pacific Island laborers and New Caledonia
- Sovereign wealth funds in the Pacific Island countries: Macro-fiscal linkages
- Urbanisation in the Island Pacific: Towards sustainable development
- Asia Regional Economic Growth and Trade - USAID
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Business Datasets – Data.gov
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Finance Datasets – Data.gov
- East Asia and Pacific IDA Credits and Grants – World Bank
- East Asia and Pacific IBRD Loans – World Bank
- The Economic Status of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders – U.S. Department of Labor
- Household Income & Expenditures in Pacific Islands – New Caledonia Statistics Division
- Pacific Country Profiles – World Health Organization
- Pacific Country Reports – World Health Organization
- Pacific Islands Economics Statistics – New Caledonia Statistics Division
- Pacific Islands Exports to the U.S. – Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
- Pacific Islands Population Statistics – New Caledonia Statistics Division
- The World Bank in Pacific Islands – World Bank
Counseling, psychology, & social work
- The Association of self-efficacy and barriers to smoking cessation among Chamorros
- Cross-cultural effects in children diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder on parental and caregiver stress
- Effects of acculturation gap and attachment style on South Asian adolescent well-being
- Effects of mindfulness-based group counseling on functional impairment and global functioning in Southeast Asians
- Effects of the long-term underdevelopment of the Hawai'ian culture and the relationship to theories of human development
- Examining the culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy of teacher candidates in Hawaii
- Ho'oponopono: Assessing the effects of a traditional Hawaiian forgiveness technique on unforgiveness
- The influence of culture on HIV disclosure among gay Asian males
- Intergenerational historical trauma and posttraumatic growth in an indigenous Pacific Island community
- The lived experiences of South Asian same-sex attracted women residing in the United States
- The relationship between youths' risky sexual behavior and race/ethnicity
- A social constructivist analysis of Tinian Island and six young members of the community
- Social support and psychotherapy for Asian and Pacific Islanders with HIV/AIDS
- Student perspectives regarding school failure at the American Samoa Community College
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- Asia and Pacific Journal on Disability
- Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development
- Asia Pacific Perspectives
- Asia-Pacific Psychiatry
- Asia-Pacific Social Science Review
- Asian Journal of Psychiatry
- Asian Social Work & Policy Review
- Intersections: Gender & Sexuality in Asia & the Pacific
- Journal of Asia Pacific Counseling
- Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work
- Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology
- The Journal of the Polynesian Society
- SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
- Asian American and Pacific Islander children and mental health
- Body, self, & society: The view from Fiji
- Citizens, democracy, and markets Around the Pacific Rim: Congruence theory and political culture
- Food and gender in Fiji: Ethnoarchaeological explorations
- Gender violence & human rights: Seeking justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu
- Hidden dimensions: The cultural significance of wetland archaeology
- Home in the islands: Housing and social change in the Pacific
- Interpreting corruption: Culture and politics in the Pacific Islands
- Making sense of Micronesia: The logic of Pacific Island culture
- Mad tales from the Raj: Colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58
- Negotiating tradition, becoming American: family, gender, and autonomy for second generation South Asians
- On the edge of the global: Modern anxieties in a Pacific Island nation
- Pacific Island heritage: Archaeology, identity & community
- Pacific Island societies: 1000-1500 CE
- Penina Uliuli: Contemporary challenges in mental health for Pacific peoples
- The people trade: Pacific island laborers and New Caledonia
- Strangers in their own land: A century of colonial rule in the Caroline and Marshall Islands
- Traditional Micronesian societies: Adaptation, integration, and political Ooganization in the Central Pacific
- Asia Regional Gender Quality and Female Empowerment - USAID
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Datasets – Data.gov
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage – National Park Service
- Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders – Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- Being LGBT in Asia - USAID
- Critical Issues Facing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders - White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
- Household Income & Expenditures in Pacific Islands – New Caledonia Statistics Division
- Mental Health and Asians and Pacific Islanders - U.S. Office of Minority Health
- National Minimum Development Indicators – Secretariat of the Pacific Community
- Pacific Countries Vital Statistics – Secretariat of the Pacific Community
- Pacific Country Profiles – World Health Organization
- Pacific Country Reports – World Health Organization
- Pacific Islands Population Statistics – New Caledonia Statistics Division
- Pacific Islands Social Statistics – New Caledonia Statistics Division
- U.S. Efforts to Address Trafficking in Persons and Irregular Migration in East Asia and the Pacific - USAID
Criminal justice
- The 1907 Bellingham Riot and Anti-Asian hostilities in the Pacific Northwest
- Attitudes toward federal government privatization reform policies among federal civil servants and AFGE labor union members within the Department of Defense in Oahu, Hawaii
- A maritime security study of Honolulu Harbor
- The relationship between youths' risky sexual behavior and race/ethnicity
- Responses to the quality mandate by the non-commissioned officers at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii
- Asia Pacific Defence Reporter
- Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights & the Law
- Asia Pacific Security Magazine
- Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal
- Criminology & Criminal Justice: An International Journal
- Global Crime
- International Criminal Justice Review
- International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
- International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences
- International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice
- International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
- International Journal of Prisoner Health
- Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice
- Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal
- UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal
- Coup: Reflections on The political crisis in Fiji
- Creating an American lake: United States imperialism and strategic security in the Pacific Basin
- Gender violence & human rights: Seeking justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu
- Imperial benevolence: Making British authority in the Pacific Islands
- Interpreting corruption: Culture and politics in the Pacific Islands
- Kind of mending: Restorative justice in the Pacific Islands
- Law and order in a weak state: Crime and politics in Papua New Guinea
- Memories of war: Micronesians in the Pacific War
- Pacific Islanders under German rule: A study in the meaning of colonial resistance
- Small island states in the Pacific: The tyranny of distance
- Strangers in their own land: A century of colonial rule in the Caroline and Marshall Islands
- Violence and colonial dialogue: The Australian-Pacific indentured labor trade
- War and conscience in Japan: Nambara Shigeru and the Asia-Pacific War
- World War II Pacific Island guide: A geo-military study
- Youth violence prevention among Asian American and Pacific Islander youth
- Asia-Pacific Anti-Corruption Initiative - Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Asia Regional Peace and Security - USAID
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Datasets – Data.gov
- Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Victims of Crime - U.S. Department of Justice
- Asian Transnational Organized Crime and U.S. Impact - U.S. Department of Justice
- Country Reports on Terrorism 2016 East Asia and Pacific - U.S. Department of State
- Crime Data – Fiji Bureau of Statistics
- Inmates by Race - Federal Bureau of Prisons
- National Minimum Development Indicators – Secretariat of the Pacific Community
- Pacific Country Profiles – World Health Organization
- Pacific Country Reports – World Health Organization
- Pacific Islands Chief of Police Resources
- Pacific Islands Population Statistics – New Caledonia Statistics Division
- Prison Staff by Race/Ethnicity - Federal Bureau of Prisons
- Racial Diversity of Correctional Workers and Inmates - Federal Bureau of Prisons
- U.S. Efforts to Address Trafficking in Persons and Irregular Migration in East Asia and the Pacific - USAID
- U.S. Engagement in the Pacific – U.S. Embassy in Palau
Education
- Academic resilience in American Samoan community college students: An ethnographic study
- A Comparison of mathematics achievement outcomes among three instruction programs for Pacific Island elementary students
- Cross-cultural effects in children diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder on parental and caregiver stress
- The Effect of computer-assisted language learning on Micronesian students' writing achievement
- Effects of acculturation gap and attachment style on South Asian adolescent well-being
- Effects of the long-term underdevelopment of the Hawai'ian culture and the relationship to theories of human development
- Examining the culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy of teacher candidates in Hawaii
- The impact of teacher furloughs on academic achievement in Hawaii public schools
- Increasing access to effective education across Oceania
- Mentoring experience perceptions of career changing teachers on Guam
- Multiyear student/teacher relationships and language development in children of Hawaiian descent at Kamehameha Schools community based early childhood education program
- A social constructivist analysis of Tinian Island and six young members of the community
- South-Asian American and Asian-Indian Americans parents: Children's education and parental participation
- Student perspectives regarding school failure at the American Samoa Community College
- Understanding the perceptions of high school dropouts with disabilities in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
- Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
- Asia Pacific Education Review
- Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning & Teaching
- Asia Pacific Journal of Education
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education
- Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
- Asia-Pacific Science Education
- Asian Education and Development Studies
- Asian Journal of English Language Teaching
- Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement
- Pacific-Asian Education Journal
- Asian American and Pacific Islander children and mental health
- Culturally contested pedagogy: Battles of literacy and schooling between mainstream teachers and Asian immigrant parents
- Faithful education: madrassahs in South Asia
- Higher education, research and knowledge in the Asia-Pacific region
- A history of early childhood education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
- Innovations in science teacher education in the Asia Pacific
- Maori and Pasifika higher education horizons
- Remaking area studies: Teaching and learning across Asia and the Pacific
- "Strangers" of the academy: Asian women scholars in higher education
- Advancing the Rebalance to Asia and the Pacific - The White House
- Asia Regional Country Profile - USAID
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Education Datasets – Data.gov
- Educational attainment and unemployment among U.S. Asians - U.S. Department of Labor
- National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education
- National Minimum Development Indicators – Secretariat of the Pacific Community
- Pacific Country Profiles – World Health Organization
- Pacific Country Reports – World Health Organization
- Pacific Education Reports by Island – New Caledonia Statistics Division
- Pacific Islands Population Statistics – New Caledonia Statistics Division
- Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups - U.S. Department of Education
- White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders – The White House
Health sciences & nursing
- Active living and health related quality of life in a multiethnic Asian population
- An analysis of the effects of a corporate fitness program in Hawaii
- Assessing racial differences in U.S. prenatal care, gestational weight gain, and low birthweight
- The association of self-efficacy and barriers to smoking cessation Among Chamorros
- Breast cancer, Mana'olana/hope, and the experience of Native Hawaiian women
- Caregivers' influence on dental service utilization by Asian and Pacific Islander children
- Comparison of two clinical severity scoring systems in two multi-center, developing country rotavirus vaccine trials in Africa and Asia
- Factors associated with provider utilization of the heath information exchange in the state of Hawaii
- Hawaii 3ForLife: Utility model for hepatitis B screening and immunization
- The influence of culture on HIV disclosure among gay Asian males
- Optimizing the measurement of severe rotavirus gastroenteritis among children under 2 years of age in Africa and Asia
- Risk factors for community-associated staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infections in children of Maui, Hawaii
- The Severity of obstructive sleep apnea and hypertension among middle aged Asians
- Spatial characteristics of residential neighborhood environments and physical activity behaviors in an island community
- Total quality system breakdowns in outsourced clinical trials
- Translating evidence to practice through a sustainable international collaboration
- Asia and Pacific Journal on Disability
- Asia Pacific Family Medicine
- Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management
- Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
- Asian Journal of Medical Sciences
- Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research
- Asian Nursing Research
- Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal
- Hawaii Medical Journal
- Pacific Rim International Journal of Nursing Research
- Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health
- Addressing HIV/AIDS in East Asia and the Pacific
- Asian medicine and globalization
- Comparative health policy in the Asia-Pacific
- Drinking smoke: The tobacco syndemic in Oceania
- Financing health care in East Asia and the Pacific: Best practices and remaining challenges
- Healing powers and modernity: Traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies
- Health policy research in South Asia: Building capacity for reform
- Health situation in the South-East Asia region, 2001-2007
- Histories of health in Southeast Asia: Perspectives on the long twentieth century
- HIV/AIDS Care and treatment for people who inject drugs in Asia and the Pacific: An essential practice guide
- Long-Term Care in the 21st Century: Perspectives from around the Asia-Pacific Rim
- Pacific partnerships for health: Charting a course for the 21st century
- Sanitation, hygiene, and drinking water in the Pacific Island countries
- Asia Regional Global Health - USAID
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Datasets – Data.gov
- Asian or Pacific Islander Population Health - National Center for Health Statistics
- Cancer and Asians/Pacific Islanders - U.S. Office of Minority Health
- Diabetes and Asians and Pacific Islanders - U.S. Office of Minority Health
- Health Information and Intelligence Platform – World Health Organization
- Health of Non-Hispanic Asian Adults - National Center for Health Statistics
- Heart Disease and Asians and Pacific Islanders - U.S. Office of Minority Health
- Immunizations and Asians and Pacific Islanders - U.S. Office of Minority Health
- Infant Mortality and Asians and Pacific Islanders - U.S. Office of Minority Health
- National Minimum Development Indicators – Secretariat of the Pacific Community
- Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Health – U.S. Office of Minority Health
- Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health – Medline Plus
- Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander National Health Interview Survey – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Pacific Countries Vital Statistics – Secretariat of the Pacific Community
- Pacific Country Profiles – World Health Organization
- Pacific Country Reports – World Health Organization
- Pacific Islander and Maori Health Data – Queensland Government
- Pacific Islands Population Statistics – New Caledonia Statistics Division
- Western Pacific Health – World Health Organization
Public policy & administration
- Attitudes toward federal government privatization reform policies among federal civil servants and AFGE labor union members within the Department of Defense in Oahu, Hawaii
- The effects of organizational downsizing on Asian Pacific American middle managers in the federal government
- Factors associated with provider utilization of the heath information exchange in the state of Hawaii
- The impact of teacher furloughs on academic achievement in Hawaii public schools
- Responses to the quality mandate by the non-commissioned officers at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii
- Spatial characteristics of residential neighborhood environments and physical activity behaviors in an island community
- Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies
- Asia Pacific Defence Reporter
- Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights & the Law
- Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
- Asia-Pacific Review
- Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal
- Asian Affairs: An American Review
- International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
- International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
- Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
- Pacific Islands Policy
- Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal
- Capitalist restructuring and the Pacific Rim
- Citizens, democracy, and markets around the Pacific Rim: Congruence theory and political culture
- Climate change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and impacts
- Climate change in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands
- Comparative health policy in the Asia-Pacific
- Home in the islands: Housing and social change in the Pacific
- Imperial benevolence: Making British authority in the Pacific Islands
- Interpreting corruption: Culture and politics in the Pacific Islands
- Kind of mending: Restorative justice in the Pacific Islands
- Law and order in a weak state: Crime and politics in Papua New Guinea
- Political parties in the Pacific Islands
- Strangers in their own land: A century of colonial rule in the Caroline and Marshall Islands
- Traditional Micronesian societies: Adaptation, integration, and political organization in the Central Pacific
- Urbanisation in the Island Pacific: Towards Sustainable Development
- Advancing the Rebalance to Asia and the Pacific - The White House
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Datasets – Data.gov
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Local Government Datasets – Data.gov
- Critical Issues Facing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders - White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
- East Asia and Pacific IDA Credits and Grants – World Bank
- East Asia and Pacific IBRD Loans – World Bank
- National Minimum Development Indicators – Secretariat of the Pacific Community
- Pacific Countries Vital Statistics – Secretariat of the Pacific Community
- Pacific Country Profiles – World Health Organization
- Pacific Country Reports – World Health Organization
- Pacific Islands Economics Statistics – New Caledonia Statistics Division
- Pacific Islands Population Statistics – New Caledonia Statistics Division
- The Economic Status of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders – U.S. Department of Labor
- U.S. Efforts to Address Trafficking in Persons and Irregular Migration in East Asia and the Pacific - USAID
- U.S. Engagement in the Pacific – U.S. Embassy in Palau
- U.S. Policy and Strategy in the Asia Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities - Testimony, U.S. Senate