SELECTED THESES ON THE CIRCUMPOLAR ARCTIC

This thesis is concerned with the phenomenon of educational migration as it affects the youth of Greenland. Based on four months of fieldwork in the small coastal town of Upernavik in northwest Greenland, my goal has been to document how Greenlandic young people perceive their choices; what aspects of their society are most important and influential in their lives; and how this social reality becomes manifest throughout their process of decision-making, and the subsequent migration or continuation-of-life-in-the-home-community. Included in the study is a comparison between some aspects of the Canadian Inuit, as depicted in the literature, and those same aspects of the Greenlandic population, as evidenced by both the literature and my own experiences and observations while in the field.