عنوان

A SHARED STATE:

شماره

LA8dm8k1db

عنوان اصلي

A SHARED STATE:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Wolins, Maia

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

IRAQI REFUGEES AND AMERICAN VETERANS IN THE AFTERMATH OF WAR

متن يادداشت

The American media devoted primetime coverage to the military offensive in Baghdad in March of 2003 but as time passed the 'War on Terror' became an uneasy norm in American consciousness. Although the Iraq war swept through the lives of millions of Iraqi civilians and hundreds of thousands of American military families, few ethnographic studies document that aftermath. Furthermore, while veterans and refugees are the two largest populations affected by the war, no previous studies have analyzed both groups in concert. To that end, this paper is an ethnographic analysis of the war's aftermath through the lived experiences of Iraqi refugees and American veterans in California. The research on which the study is based derives from twelve months of participant observation, group discussions, and qualitative interviews with refugees formerly of the Iraqi professional class who relocated to northern California after 2003 and, separately, with American veterans of the war who pursued bachelor's degrees in northern California after leaving Iraq. The results of the study illustrate that the postwar situations of the two groups are surprisingly similar despite their divergent points of origin, with both experiencing a drastic change in professional opportunity, repercussions of trauma, and isolation. I argue that a reading of the narratives of refugees and veterans together, as mutually constitutive, is essential for a coherent view of the Iraq war and its multivalent aftermath. Key words: Iraq war, War on Terror, California, Iraqi refugees, American veterans, professional development, trauma, moral injury, isolation

تاريخ نشر

2013

عنوان

UC Berkeley

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

276859

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y