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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.
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.
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