"Immigrant service members are simultaneously held up as the exemplary immigrants and treated with suspicion as potential spies or infiltrators. The Green Card Soldier leverages the intersection between two key American institutions-the military and immigration-to understand how their overlap helps build a vision of the nation rooted in militarized citizenship and empire"--
Sprache
Verlagsort
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
USA
Verlagsgruppe
Produkt-Hinweis
Broschur/Paperback
Klebebindung
Maße
Höhe: 221 mm
Breite: 160 mm
Dicke: 30 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-262-04789-0 (9780262047890)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Sofya Aptekar is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies. She is the author of The Road to Citizenship: What Naturalization Means for Immigrants and the United States.
1 Introduction (1)
2 The Immigrant Twist on the Poverty Draft (27)
3 The Military Road to Citizenship (69)
4 Injuries of Assimilation (103)
5 The Rise and Fall of Mavni (149)
6 Deported Veterans (191)
7 Speak Truth to the Power of the War Machine (241)
Acknowledgments (249)
Appendix (253)
Acronyms (263)
Notes (265)
Index (309)
