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Making the Immigrant Soldier

How Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender Intersect in the US Military

By: Cristina-Ioana Dragomir

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Making the Immigrant Soldier

How Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender Intersect in the US Military

By: Cristina-Ioana Dragomir

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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290

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University of Illinois Press

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ISBN 10

025205430X

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9780252054303

Power on the Move

Adivasi and Roma Accessing Social Justice

By: Cristina-Ioana Dragomir

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Power on the Move

Adivasi and Roma Accessing Social Justice

By: Cristina-Ioana Dragomir

Based on intensive ethnographic work in Romania and India conducted over six years, this book traces the struggle for social justice in Roma and Adivasi communities. Throughout centuries of persecution and marginalization, the Roma and Adivasi have been viewed as both victims and fighters, as royals and paupers, beasts and gods, and lately have been challenging the political and social order by defying the status quo. Different from commonly held suppositions that assume most marginalized and mobile communities typically resist the state and engage in hostile acts to undermine its authority, Power on the Move shows how these groups are willing to become full members. By utilizing different means, such as protests, sit-ins and grass roots organizing, they aim to gain the attention of the state (national and international), hoping to reach inclusion and access social justice.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135022989X

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