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

PI分析了承诺给菲律宾退伍军人的好处，作为一个案例，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年这段时间，已经承诺菲律宾独立，在第二次世界大战中招募菲律宾人。作为交换，美国承诺给予他们公民身份和军事利益。但1946年，美国取消了这一承诺。没有任何其他民族群体被剥夺福利。通过关注这一令人困惑的战争和非殖民化时期，PI探索了国家的竞争利益如何体现在对菲律宾人的政策中。首要的研究问题是，（1）组织这些政策的逻辑是什么？(2)政府官员是如何运用“现役军人”这一类别来取消菲律宾人的军事福利的？以及（3）他们如何在做出这些决定时援引种族和国家的概念？为了回答这些问题，PI的研究历史记录从国家档案馆在大学公园，马里兰州和从富兰克林D。罗斯福总统图书馆在海德公园，纽约。通过从多个机构收集数据，PI的探索如何不同的国家机构，罗斯福总统，他的顾问，和菲律宾精英决定授予和撤销军事福利和公民身份，以菲律宾非公民退伍军人和没有其他国家的群体。PI的探索不同的解释排斥和检查他们对彼此。多机构分析为该项目提供了额外的杠杆作用，以了解该州内部相互矛盾和复杂的排斥逻辑。该项目增加了我们的理解，在当代背景下，什么包容和排斥意味着在一个迅速多样化的社会，如美国。

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.