Green card soldier : between model immigrant and security threat /
"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 h...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Labor and technology.
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| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 337 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262047890 0262047896 |