TY  - GEN
T1  - Making the immigrant soldier : how race, ethnicity, class, and gender intersect in the US military
A1  - Dragomir, Cristina-Ioana
LA  - English
PP  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1351788279
AB  - "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"--
CN  - UB418.N66
SN  - 025205430X
SN  - 9780252054303
SN  - 9780252045035
SN  - 9780252087165
SN  - 0252045033
SN  - 025208716X
KW  - Noncitizen soldiers : United States : Case studies.
KW  - United States : Armed Forces : Noncitizens : Case studies.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - United States
KW  - Warfare & defence.
KW  - Warfare and Defence.
KW  - Case studies
ER  -