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Baali, Fuad. “Social Factors in Iraqi Rural-Urban Migration.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 25.4 (1966): 359-364. Link to Article
Keyword: social, factors, Iraqi, rural-urban, migration
This paper analysis the rural-urban migration of Iraqis to cities within Iraq, especially Baghdad, and closely examines the conditions of the migrant. The paper argues that this movement is not directly linked to industrialization or urbanization, rather the system of landownership and political dissension are direct factors of this movement.
Geddes, Andrew. "Governing Migration from a Distance: Interactions Between Climate, Migration and Security in the South Mediterranean." European Security 24.3 (2015): 473-490. Link to Article
keyword: Climate change, environment, security, South Mediterranean
The Article asses the link between the environment, and the security and migration nexus by assessing the EU's external governance policies in the “South Mediterranean Partner Countries” (SMPCs): Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, and Tunisia. The author argues that, given the data, migration triggered by climate changes interacts with social, economic and political drivers of migration. He further finds that implications of such movements exposes migrants to further risks and more displacement.
Hoffmann, Sophia. “The Humanitarian Regime of Sovereignty: INGOs and Iraqi Migration to Syria.” Refuge 28.1 (2011): 59-70. Link to Article
Keyword: humanitarian, sovereignty, INGOs, Iraq, Syria
This article studies international humanitarian involvement of NGOs in Syrian that are focused on the Iraqi migrant population questioning how these organizations were positioned towards modern state sovereignty, and sovereignty's particular construction of territory, population and government. The article argues that most INGOs operate firmly within the social relations stipulated by modern sovereignty using ethnographic data to demonstrate how INGO activities treated Iraqis according to sovereign exclusions and ideas about citizenship.
Iaria, Vanessa. “Attempting Return: Iraqis’ Remigration from Iraq.” Refuge 28.1 (2011): 109-121. (Summary adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: return, re-migration, Iraq
This article explores the Iraqi returnees' experiences based on accounts of their return and re-migration to Syrian and Jordan. The study finds that Iraqi refugees' decision to return is driven less by improvements in Iraq than by their desire to rebuild their lives back home and overcome the difficult legal and socio economic conditions in neighboring countries.
King, Diane E. “Asylum Seekers and Patron Seekers: Interpreting Iraqi Kurdish Migration.” Human Organization 64.4 (2005): 316-327. Link to Article
Keyword: asylum seekers, patron seekers, Iraqi, kurds, Kurdish, Kurdistan, migration
This article examines Iraqi Kurdish out-migration to the West between 1991-2003 arguing that migrants perceived the west as potential patrons and were motivated to migrate due to their conceptualization of patronage and clientage roles.
Meir-Glitzenstein, Esther. “Our Dowry: Identity and Memory among Iraqi Immigrants in Israel.” Middle Eastern Studies 38.2. (1966): 359-364. Link to Article
Keyword: Iraqi, Jewish, Israel, immigrants, Babylonian, Jewry, Heritage, center, Mizrahim
This article focuses on the different sector of Mizrahim who became part of the Israeli middle class. The author lays out the identity traits of the Mizrahim population by looking at their socioeconomic, political and cultural traits and their place in Israeli society. As such, the article focuses on the contexts in which the founders of the Babylonian Jewry Heritage center acted. Also, the article explores the connection between the identity traits of the founders of the center and the Iraqi community in Israeli and Israeli society at large as a memorial community.
Pascucci, Elisa. “Migration, Identity, and Social Mobility among Iraqis in Egypt.” Refuge 28.1 (2011): 49-58. (Summary adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: migration, identity, social, mobility, Iraqis, Egypt
Based on a small-scale qualitative research project with Iraqis living in 6th of October City in Egypt, this paper explores the role shifting social identities play in Iraqis’ experience of migration and forced displacement. In doing so, it focuses on three major themes emerging from the ethnographic material: the relation between social change in the homeland and other dimensions of Iraqis’ belonging; the role education and work play in the strategies refugees employ to resist dispossession, as well as in the practices through which other categories of Iraqi migrants rewrite their social identities; and Iraqis’ relation with Egyptian society.
Romano, David. “Whose House is this Anyway? IDP and Refugee Return in Post-Saddam Iraq.” Journal of Refugee Studies 18.4 (2005): 430-453. (Summary adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: IDP, refugees, post-Saddam, Iraq
This paper examines the causes of return problems in Iraq and how various authorities in post-Ba'athist Iraq are addressing the return issue. Particularly around the contested city of Kirkuk, problems relating to the return issue risks igniting ethnic conflict and possibly even civil war in Iraq as a whole. The article examines the return issue for the period from march 2003 to June 2004, focusing especially on norther Iraq and Kurkuk.
Romano, David. “IDP and Refugee Return to Northern Iraq: Sustainable Returns or Demographic Bombs?” Refuge 24.1 (2007): 135-144. Link to Article
Keyword: IDP, Iraq, refugee, return, Northern, demographic, sustainable
This article discusses the issue of returning to Iraq after prolonged displacement from original towns and homes. In addition to general problems that obstructs a safe and secure return for Iraqi displaced population, including sectarian competition, lack of security, insufficient financial resources, among others, the emerging political contests over the future of the the new Iraq has further complicated return.