Among the Alien Corn: Acculturative Challenges Facing German Military Wives on a Southwestern Air Force Base

• In Event: Women, War, Nation and Race

Abstract

This research contrasts the experience of male active-duty German military personnel with that of their wives as members of both groups acculturate and negotiate their identities within the closely-bounded confines of a overseas military base. Ongoing social change in Germany and globalization significantly affects wives’ acculturative experience, as do gender-based disparities resulting from the patriarchal, misogynic structure of the German military, restrictive macro-level policies of the host country, and other factors.

Author

• Tatjana Rosev, Univ of New Mexico