Interpreters of occupation : gender and the politics of belonging in an Iraqi refugee network / Madeline Otis Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Madeline Otis, author.

Series:

Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ḥizb al-Baʻth al-ʻArabī al-Ishtirākī (Iraq)--Biography.

Ḥizb al-Baʻth al-ʻArabī al-Ishtirākī (Iraq).

Iraqis--United States--Biography.

Iraqis.

Iraqis--Migrations--History--21st century.

Refugees--United States--Biography.

Refugees.

Young adults.

Translators.

Sex role--Political aspects.

Belonging (Social psychology).

Social networks.

History.

United States.

Iraq.

Social networks--Case studies.

Belonging (Social psychology)--Political aspects--Case studies.

Sex role--Political aspects--Case studies.

Sex role.

Translators--Iraq--Biography.

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Refugees.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Young adults--Iraq--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xix, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"During the Iraq War, thousands of young Baghdadis worked as interpreters for US troops, becoming the front line of the so-called War on Terror. Deployed by the military as linguistic as well as cultural interpreters--translating the 'human terrain' of Iraq--members of this network urgently honed identification strategies amid suspicion from US forces, fellow Iraqis, and, not least of all, one another. In Interpreters of Occupation, Campbell traces the experiences of twelve individuals from their young adulthood as members of the Ba'thist generation, to their work as interpreters, through their navigation of the US immigration pipeline, and finally to their resettlement in the United States. Throughout, Campbell considers how these men and women grappled with issues of belonging and betrayal, both on the battlefield in Iraq and in the US-based diaspora. A nuanced and richly detailed ethnography, Interpreters of Occupation gives voice to a generation of US allies through their diverse and vividly rendered life histories. In the face of what some considered a national betrayal in Iraq and their experiences of otherness within the United States, interpreters negotiate what it means to belong to a diasporic community in flux"--From publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction: Global routes : Baghdad to Boston

The last Ba'thist generation

Life and work as a military terp

Honor and terror on loyalty base

Reconstructing patriarchy on patrol

From American ally to Iraqi refugee

Inside the refugee network and across borders.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229) and index.

ISBN:

9780815634553

0815634552

9780815634379

0815634374

OCLC:

928488109