Throughout the twentieth century, American male soldiers
returned home from wars with foreign-born wives in tow, often from
allied but at times from enemy nations, resulting in a new,
official category of immigrant: the "allied" war bride. These
brides began to appear en masse after World War I, peaked after
World War II, and persisted through the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
GIs also met and married former "enemy" women under conditions of
postwar occupation, although at times the US government banned such
unions.
In this comprehensive, complex history of war brides in
20th-century American history, Susan Zeiger uses relationships
between American male soldiers and foreign women as a lens to view
larger issues of sexuality, race, and gender in United States
foreign relations. Entangling Alliances draws on a rich array of
sources to trace how war and postwar anxieties about power and
national identity have long been projected onto war brides, and how
these anxieties translate into public policies, particularly
immigration.
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