Doctoral Dissertation Research: Filipino Military Service & The Promise of Benefits

博士论文研究：菲律宾兵役

• 批准号: 1519125
• 负责人: Pamela Oliver
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1519125&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Filipino; Military

The PI's analyze the benefits promised to Filipino veterans as a case to explore how race and nation were constructed through empire and war. They analyze the period between 1934 and 1947 -- a time when the U.S., having already promised independence to the Philippines, recruited Filipinos in World War II. In exchange for their service, the U.S. promised citizenship and military benefits. But in 1946 the United States revoked this promise. No other national group was denied benefits. By focusing on this puzzling period of war and decolonization, the PI's explore how the competing interests of the state manifest in policies toward Filipinos. The overarching research questions are, (1) what was the logic organizing these polices? (2) how did government officials deploy the category of "active military service" in revoking military benefits from Filipinos? And (3) how did they invoke the concepts of race and nation in making these decisions? To answer these questions, the PI's examine historical records from the National Archives in College Park, MD and from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY. By collecting data from multiple institutions, the PI's explore how various state agencies, President Roosevelt, his advisors, and and Filipino elites decided to grant and revoke military benefits and citizenship to Filipino non-citizen veterans and no other national group. The PI's explore different explanations for exclusion and examine them against one another. A multi-agency analysis gives the project additional leverage for understanding the contradictory and complicated logics of exclusion within the state. The project increases our understanding in the contemporary context of what inclusion and exclusion means in a rapidly diversifying society like the United States.

PI 分析了向菲律宾退伍军人承诺的好处，作为一个案例来探讨种族和国家是如何通过帝国和战争构建的。他们分析了 1934 年至 1947 年间的时期——当时美国已经承诺菲律宾独立，并在第二次世界大战中招募了菲律宾人。作为对他们服务的交换，美国承诺给予他们公民身份和军事福利。但1946年美国撤销了这一承诺。没有其他国家团体被剥夺福利。通过关注这段令人费解的战争和非殖民化时期，PI 探讨了国家的竞争利益如何体现在针对菲律宾人的政策中。最重要的研究问题是：（1）组织这些政策的逻辑是什么？ （2）政府官员如何运用“现役军人”类别来取消菲律宾人的军事福利？ （3）他们在做出这些决定时如何援引种族和国家的概念？为了回答这些问题，PI 检查了马里兰州大学公园市国家档案馆和纽约州海德公园富兰克林·罗斯福总统图书馆的历史记录。通过从多个机构收集数据，PI 探索了各个国家机构、罗斯福总统、他的顾问和菲律宾精英如何决定向菲律宾非公民退伍军人而不是其他国家群体授予和撤销军事福利和公民身份。 PI 探索了排除的不同解释，并相互对比进行检验。多机构分析为该项目提供了额外的影响力，有助于理解国家内部矛盾且复杂的排斥逻辑。该项目增强了我们在当代背景下对包容和排斥在美国这样一个快速多元化社会中意味着什么的理解。