Female jockeys; military migrants
Military Migrants. Laurie Taylor explores the meaning and impact of our increasingly multinational armed forces. Also female jockeys and the horseracing world.
Military Migrants and the British Army. From Fiji to Ghana, the British military recruits soldiers to fight Britain's wars. Since 1998 overseas recruitment has been stepped up in response to labour shortages and diversity programmes. The sociologist, Vron Ware, talks to Laurie Taylor about her new book 'Military Migrants: Fighting for Your Country'. She argues that this new category of soldier inhabits a contradictory situation - on the one hand, praised as a 'hero' but on the other, stigmatised as an 'immigrant' and 'foreigner'. They're joined by the sociologist, Les Back. Also, Deborah Butler discusses her research on trainee female jockeys in the horse racing world.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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Deborah Butler
Research Associate at the University of Warwick
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Abstract:
Deborah Butler, Nickie Charles
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2012.02129.x
The Sociological Review
Volume 60, Issue 4, pages 676–695, November 2012
Dr Vron Ware
Research Fellow at the Centre for Research and Socio-cultural change (CRESC) and and the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG), Open University
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Military Migrants: Fighting for YOUR country
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-10: 1137010029
ISBN-13: 978-1137010025
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Faculty of Social SciencesThe Open University
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Les Back
Professor of Sociology Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London
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Abstract:The Senses and Society, Volume 6, Number 3, November 2011, pp. 306-324(19)
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