Who Fights
Substitution, Commutation, and “Green Card Troops”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24315861 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cara Wong (0000-0002-0152-037X) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 167-188 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1742-058X • E-ISSN: 1742-0598 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1742058x07070099 |
| OpenAlex | W2803750198 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 25 |
In discussions of political obligation, it is commonly assumed that duties follow from citizenship. However, the performance of a duty by aliens can lead to citizenship status in at least one critical case: service by noncitizen soldiers. While politicians and pundits recently have called citizenship a just reward for bearing arms and these “green card troops” another example of immigrant entrepreneurship in the United States, there is a good deal of ideological ambivalence about the policy. A clear discussion of its merits is crucial, particularly because in upending the traditionally accepted relationship between obligation and membership in a community, it gives new meaning to citizenship; it also forces a choice between our egalitarian and civic republican values. In this essay, I provide a theoretical framework for evaluating the policy normatively, as well as a political analysis of why—regardless of one's normative stance—the practice of granting citizenship for military service is likely to continue into the future.
Citizenship · citizenship policy · civic republicanism · Egalitarianism · immigrant entrepreneurship · Military service · Political obligation · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theory and Democracy
Rethinking Acculturation and Military Transition
How We Fail US Foreign-Born Veterans
The Value of Citizenship and Service to the Nation
The military gates to US citizenship
Will You Die for Your Country? Workplace Death in an Era of Mass Incarceration
The Security-Force Ethnicity (SFE) Project
Who Gets to Have a DREAM? Examining Public Support for Immigration Reform
Logics of Race and Capitalism in the Political Economy of Time
Framing the Immigrant in Labor Unions and the Military in the United States
All That We Can Be
Soldiers and Civilians
Democracy and the Foreigner
Consent, dissent, and patriotism
The US Citizen-Soldier's Past, Present, and Likely Future
The Military Obligation of Citizens Since Vietnam
Making Patriots
Challenge to the Nation-State
Bowling Alone
Propensity to Serve in the U.S. Military
Strength for the Fight
The Meanings of Citizenship
To Raise an Army
The Drafting of Neutral Aliens by the United States
Aliens in the U.S. Armed Forces
Aliens and Citizens
The Foreigner as Soldier in the Second World War, I
The Tense Citizen and the Casual Patriot
Obligation, Loyalty, Exile
Citizens in Arms
The Passing of Alien Suffrage
The All-Volunteer Military as a 'Sociopolitical' Problem
Citizenship and Compulsory Military Service
| Citations per year | 0.82 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |