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; 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分析了有望将菲律宾退伍军人作为探索如何通过帝国和战争建立种族和民族的案例。他们分析了1934年至1947年之间的时期 - 在第二次世界大战中招募菲律宾人的美国已经承诺独立的时期。为了换取他们的服务，美国承诺公民身份和军事福利。但是在1946年，美国撤销了这一诺言。没有其他国家团体被拒绝受益。通过关注这一令人困惑的战争和非殖民化时期，PI的探索探讨了国家的竞争利益如何在对菲律宾人的政策中表现出来。总体研究问题是（1）组织这些政策的逻辑是什么？ （2）政府官员如何将“活跃的兵役”类别部署在撤销菲律宾人的军事福利中？ （3）他们是如何在做出这些决定时援引种族和民族的概念的？为了回答这些问题，PI的历史记录来自马里兰州大学公园的国家档案馆以及纽约海德公园的富兰克林·罗斯福总统图书馆。通过从多个机构那里收集数据，PI的数据探讨了各个州机构，罗斯福总统，他的顾问以及菲律宾精英如何决定授予和撤销军事福利和公民身份，向菲律宾非公民退伍军人以及没有其他国家集团。 PI的探索解释以排除在外，并相互检查。多机构分析为该项目提供了额外的杠杆作用，以理解州内排除的矛盾和复杂的逻辑。该项目在当代的背景下增加了我们的理解，即在像美国这样快速多元化的社会中，包容性和排斥意味着什么。