Conflict and Migration From Iraq: Building A Life in Exile Amid The Twists And Turns Of A Dramatic History
Conflict and Migration From Iraq: Building A Life in Exile Amid The Twists And Turns Of A Dramatic History

Author(s): Cyril Roussel
Subject(s): Peace and Conflict Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Conflict; migration; Iraq; dramatic history; Middle; political; East; Europe; North America; Australia; Islamic Revolution; Saddam Hussein; Kurd; identity; political activist; political;
Summary/Abstract: Migration from the Middle East has not always received as much media coverage as in recent years (2015–2016). Yet a continuous flow of emigration towards Europe, North America, and Australia essentially began in the 1970s and 1980s. It mostly involved urban elites leaving countries led by regimes that were repressive towards them, like in Iran after the Islamic Revolution, Turkey after the military dictatorship, or Iraq in the time of Saddam Hussein. Opponents to these regimes became political refugees, some of whom formed the embryos of future diasporas in the West. Here we have chosen to present one of them, who was threatened as a Kurd (a group persecuted in the Middle East following their fight for the recognition of their identity) and at the same time as a political activist and member of the Communist Party.

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