Scholars Online
Madeline Campbell
Roger Williams University
Filmed in March 2011
- What are refugees and internally displaced persons? [2:07]
- Why did many refugees leave Iraq during Saddam Hussein's rule? [2:14]
- Why did many Iraqis become refugees after the 2003 invasion? [3:26]
- What groups of people were most affected by the refugee crisis? [2:12]
- Where did Iraqi refugees go? [1:07]
- What is life like for Iraqi refugees in neighboring Middle Eastern countries? [2:07]
- What is life like for internally displaced people in Iraq? [1:59]
- How has U.S. policy toward Iraqi refugees changed throughout the war? [2:44]
- How does the United Nations deal with refugee crises? [1:47]
- How does an Iraqi get asylum in the United States? [2:28]
- What is life like for Iraqi refugees in the United States? [3:11]
- What has been the attitude of the U.S. public toward Iraqi refugees? [2:08]
- What have your experiences been like working with and talking to Iraqi refugees? [3:43]
- Why should high school students care about Iraqi refugees? [2:08]
Madeline Otis Campbell is a New England-based researcher and adjunct professor of anthropology at Roger Williams University. Her research focuses on the dynamic interactions between processes of displacement and belonging in the Middle East. She has conducted ethnographic research in North Africa on Saharawi political activism in Algeria and Morocco-controlled Western Sahara, and is currently completing a research project on Iraqi refugees living in the United States. Campbell also worked for nearly two years in the United States Refugee Assistance Program as an adjudicator of applications for asylum. Focused in particular on the far-reaching refugee crisis brought about by the Iraq War, Campbell was able to interview and grant asylum in the United States to a diverse population of Iraqi refugees living in countries across the Middle East including Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, as well as inside Iraq. She is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis.
