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Making the Immigrant Soldier: How Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender Intersect in the Us Military

Making the Immigrant Soldier: How Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender Intersect in the Us Military

Dragomir, Cristina-Ioana

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Armed ForcesGeneral Political ScienceImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 025208716X
ISBN13: 9780252087165
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Apr 18 2023
Pages: 258
Language: English
Immigrants to the United States have long used the armed forces as a shortcut to citizenship. Cristina-Ioana Dragomir profiles Lily, Alexa, and Vikrant, three immigrants of varying nationalities and backgrounds who chose military service as their way of becoming American citizens. Privileging the trio's own words and experiences, Dragomir crafts a human-focused narrative that moves from their lives in their home countries and decisions to join the military to their fraught naturalization processes within the service. Dragomir illuminates how race, ethnicity, class, and gender impacted their transformation from immigrant to soldier, veteran, and American. She explores how these factors both eased their journeys and created obstacles that complicated their access to healthcare, education, economic resources, and other forms of social justice.

A compelling union of analysis and rich storytelling, Making the Immigrant Soldier traces the complexities of serving in the military in order to pursue the American dream.

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