The Syrian Refugee Crisis in the Kurdish Region of Iraq

Explaining the Role of Borders in Situations of Forced Displacement

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9952525
AutoresFilippo Dionigi (0000-0001-8619-9177, University of Bristol, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume57
Fascículo2
Páginas10-31
Data de publicação2018-05-23
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Migration (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/imig.12468
OpenAlexW2803792417
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas24

More than 250,000 Syrian refugees have relocated in the Kurdish Region of Iraq since 2011. The local response has been relatively receptive towards them. This study proposes an analysis of the concept of border and applies the idea of “border thinness” as an interpretative framework to examine the nature of transborder relations between the Iraqi and Syrian Kurdish areas. Relying on secondary sources, technical and elite level interviews with social and political actors in KRI , the analysis highlights how Kurdish areas of Syria and Iraq have maintained transborder relations which shaped the dynamics of displacement from Syria and constituted the context for a relatively receptive stance towards Syrian Kurdish refugees. Borders do not always mark a sharp territorial separation between social, political, and economic realities; instead a more complex conceptualization exposes transborder relational spaces, explaining the modes of displacement and its responses from host communities

Conceptualization · Context (archaeology · Displaced person · Displacement (psychology · Elite · Forced migration · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Refugee crisis · Sociology · Syrian refugees · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology · Turkey's Politics and Society