Military Migrants : Fighting for YOUR Country.

Military Migrants : Fighting for YOUR Country.

This is the first book to examine ""migrant-soldiers' in the British army and places the phenomenon of Britain's multicultural army in relation to British culture, history and nationalism. It also explores the impact of war on UK society during the 21st Century.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ware, Vron
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Series:Migration, diasporas and citizenship.
Subjects:
War and society > Great Britain.
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation > Great Britain.
Migration, immigration & emigration > United Kingdom, Great Britain.
Ethnic studies > United Kingdom, Great Britain.
Warfare & defence > United Kingdom, Great Britain.
Society.
Armed Forces > Minorities
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation
War and society
Great Britain > Armed Forces > Minorities.
Great Britain
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1 Introduction: For Queen and Commonwealth; 'Broken Britain'; Silence; Echoes of empire; Running in the blood; Commonwealth of Nations; True Brits; Deserving citizens; The golden thread; Fighting races; Tides of history; Part I: Recruitment; 2 The Race to Recruit; The topping on the ice cream; 1998 and all that; Diana, tanks and foreign travel; Your country needs YOU; Rights of the individual; Cultural subversion'; Fitness for soldiering; The expediency of tradition; In the pipeline.
  • All in the numbersUnexpected surge; Breaking the ice; 3 The Promised Land; Living by the gun; Short-term visas; Word of mouth; Free advertising; Learning a trade; Questions of choice; Tribal training; That's what it's all about; Elite forces; Loaded questions; Armed to the teeth; Diluting Britishness; Part II: Culture; 4 Culture Shock; People you can call your own; A bit of a rough country; Bonds and cohesion; Gone soft; Martial values; Learning loyalty; Mosques, markets and suicide bombers; 5 Keeping the Faith; Education and brawn; Dumb and dumber; Training not to be British.
  • Cultures within culturesCulture as exchange; A good monk; Pomp and pageantry; Backward Christian soldier; Muslims on the front line; A royal scandal; Part III: Racism; 6 Crossing the Line; The way they live; Pulling their socks up; Fellow human beings; Signing off; Better you leave the army; Flipping the chart; It's how they think; Yap, yap, yap; Moving the goalposts; 7 The Force of the Law; Not ordinary employment; Continuous attitudes; Just the way it is; Box ticking; Neutral ignorance; All about culture; A level playing field; Part IV: Migration; 8 Like Coming to Mars; The green machine.
  • Social networksThird-line citizens; A different career in mind; Model communities; Sorrow and happiness; From another country; Round the roundabout; Forwards and backs; 9 Caught in the Crossfire; Patriotic principles; Foreign travel; Nowhere to go; The red passport; A private expense; Family reunion; Reactive maintenance; Unintended consequences; Brown envelopes; 10 Conclusion: Militarised Multiculture; Clasped hands; Down the line; Multicultural drift; The cardboard box; The home front; Mercenaries and media wars; National values; Human rights; Nothing British; National interest?
  • The crimson threadAppendix; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.

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