Interpreters of occupation : gender and the politics of belonging in an Iraqi refugee network

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The work Interpreters of occupation : gender and the politics of belonging in an Iraqi refugee network represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Interpreters of occupation : gender and the politics of belonging in an Iraqi refugee network

Title remainder

gender and the politics of belonging in an Iraqi refugee network

Statement of responsibility

Madeline Otis Campbell

Title variation

Interpreters of Occupation: Gender and the Politics of Belonging in an Iraqi Refugee Network

Creator

• Campbell, Madeline Otis

Author

• Campbell, Madeline Otis

Subject

• Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Refugees
• Iraqis -- Migrations | History -- 21st century
• Iraqis -- United States -- Biography
• Refugees -- United States -- Biography
• Sex role -- Political aspects -- Case studies
• Belonging (Social psychology) -- Political aspects -- Case studies
• Translators -- Iraq -- Biography
• Young adults -- Iraq -- Biography
• Social networks -- Case studies
• H?izb al-Ba?th al-?Arabi ̄al-Ishtirak̄i ̄(Iraq) -- Biography

Genre

• Case studies
• Biography

Language

eng

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

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E184.I55

LC item number

C36 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East