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

by Madeline Otis Campbell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815634374
• ISBN13: 9780815634379
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"