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Military Migrants - Fighting for YOUR Country (Hardcover)
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Military Migrants - Fighting for YOUR Country (Hardcover)
Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
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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.
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