Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat Aptekar Sofya

Specifikacia Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat Aptekar Sofya

An in-depth and troubling look at a little-known group of immigrants--non-citizen soldiers who enlist in the US military.While the popular image of the US military is one of citizen soldiers protecting their country, the reality is that nearly five percent of all first-time military recruits are non-citizens. Their reasons for enlisting are myriad, but many are motivated by the hope of gaining citizenship in return for their service. In Green Card Soldier, Sofya Aptekar talks to over 70 non-citizen soldiers from 23 countries, including some who were displaced by conflict after the US military entered their homeland. She identifies a disturbing pattern: the US military's intervention in foreign countries drives migration, which in turn supplies the military with a cheap and desperate labor pool--perpetuating the cycle.As Aptekar discovers, serving in the US