This article argues that after 1973, participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations abroad enabled Ghanaian military personnel and their families to employ the infrastructure of international military cooperation to form an alternate global identity that was not simply larger than the nation-state. Ghanaian military families found the experiences of international military education and peacekeeping personally rewarding, but they also connected Ghanaians to global communities while weakening some national bonds. International military service provided Ghanaian families alternate strategies to negotiate economic insecurity in ways that strikingly resemble other diaspora communities, with an essential difference: in this case, Ghanaian soldiers families’ transnational identity still depended on functioning state agencies and international diplomatic processes to facilitate their travel.

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联合国维持和平与加纳武装部队国际男女

本文认为，1973年以后，加纳在国外的联合国维和行动的参与使加纳的军事人员及其家属能够利用国际军事合作的基础设施，形成一个替代性的全球形象，而不仅仅是一个民族国家。加纳的军人家庭发现国际军事教育和维持和平的经验令人感到收获，但他们也将加纳人与全球社区联系起来，同时削弱了一些国家纽带。国际军事服务为加纳家庭提供了其他策略，以与其他侨民社区极为相似的方式来谈判经济不安全状况，但有本质区别：在这种情况下，