Military Migrants: Fighting for Your Country

by Vron Ware

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137467509
• ISBN13: 9781137467508
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"