Green card soldier : between model immigrant and security threat / Sofya Aptekar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aptekar, Sofya, 1979- author.

Series:

Labor and Technology Series

Labor and technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noncitizen soldiers--United States--Case studies.

Noncitizen soldiers.

Immigrant veterans--United States--Case studies.

Immigrant veterans.

Immigrants--United States--History--21st century.

Immigrants.

United States--Armed Forces--Noncitizens--Case studies.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1 Introduction

2 The Immigrant Twist on the Poverty Draft

3 The Military Road to Citizenship

4 Injuries of Assimilation

5 The Rise and Fall of MAVNI

6 Deported Veterans

7 Speak Truth to the Power of the War Machine

Acknowledgments

Appendix

Acronyms

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-37366-1

0-262-37365-3

OCLC:

1351626559