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Military migrants : fighting for YOUR country

Record Type:	Electronic resources : monographic
Title Information:	fighting for YOUR country
Author:	WareVron.,
Place of Publication:	[Basingstoke]
Published:	Palgrave Macmillan;
Year of Publication:	2012
Description:	1 online resource.
Series:	Migration, diasporas and citizenship
Subject:	Immigrants - Cultural assimilation - Great Britain. -
Subject:	War and society - Great Britain. -
Subject:	Soldiers - Great Britain. -
Subject:	SOCIAL SCIENCE / General -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137010032
Notes:	Description based on publisher supplied information.
Summary:	The modern British soldier is routinely portrayed as a hero, while military service is represented as a form of sacrifice that requires recognition from society as a whole. The migrant, in the other hand, remains a focus of resentment, more likely to be seen as a scrounger who drains public resources without giving anything in return. In 1998, the British Army began to recruit from Commonwealth countries, a strategy that simultaneously addressed a labour shortage and the new legal obligations to diversify its workforce. This led to the creation of a new category of migrant-soldiers who found themselves lauded as 'heroes' but stigmatised as 'immigrants' and 'foreigners'. This book explores the phenomenon of Britain's multi-national army, a topic that has passed virtually unnoticed in public debates about immigration, citizenship, multiculturalism, national identity and war. In doing so, it poses searching questions about the relationship between the armed services and the society they are charged to defend.
ISBN:	9781137010032electronic bk.
ISBN:	1137010037electronic bk.
Content Note:	For Queen and Commonwealth PART I The Race to Recruit The Promised Land PART II Culture Shock Keeping the Faith PART III Crossing the Line The Force of the Law PART IV Like Coming to Mars Caught in the Crossfire Conclusion Militarized Multiculture.

Military migrants : fighting for YOUR country
Ware, Vron.

Military migrants : fighting for YOUR country / Vron Ware. - [Basingstoke] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 1 online resource.. - (Migration, diasporas and citizenship).
For Queen and Commonwealth.
Description based on publisher supplied information..
Includes bibliographical references and index..
ISBN 9781137010032ISBN 1137010037
ImmigrantsWar and societySoldiersSOCIAL SCIENCE / General -- Cultural assimilation -- Great Britain. -- Great Britain. -- Great Britain.

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