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Editorial We like to say that we are living in the Globalisation Age, in a global world, where one thing affects to the other part of the globe, and where we can know all about all over the planet. That sounds amazing, exciting, ambicious... It is true that we can travel wherever we desire. We can talk through a screen our friend in Australia. We can eat fruits from Brazil. Or even wear nice clothes from Asia. Yes, that is our globalisation: the global paradise of those who had an empire two hundred years ago. Nevertheless, for the other part of the world, this globalisation is rather a nightmare. They are dying because of petrol wars, mineral exploitations and slavery. Two hundred years ago they were taken in a boat to work in the developed countries, now it is even not necessary. And when they try to flee from all this suffering, they die in the sea or in the prison. That is their globalisation: the global dream of those who only can dream, but not live. The rich countries created the idea of a global community for our interests. We confuse the freedom with the justice. We are now a not a free society who lives in an unfair world. But let’s stop with the idealism and move to the reality. Two weeks ago one Pakistani young, Mohamed Asfak, died in a detention centre in Athens due to lack of medical assistance. You are listening the sound of silence. The same silence that the European authorities use to explain the violation of the Human Rights. I am Aitor Sáez, and that’s ‘Borders’, a space opened to everyone, because the radio doesn’t have borders. Welcome! Aitor Sáez / aitorsaezreporter@gmail.com / www.aitorsaez.com
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Statistics An April 2009 estimate of the total Iraqi population is 31,234,000. Iraq's population was estimated at only 2 million in 1878. Iraq's population as announced by the government has reached 35 million amid a post-war population boom. According to the Central Intelligence Agency, Arabs form 75%–80% of the population. 15% of Iraq's population are Kurds. Assyrians, Turkmen and other much smaller minorities make up the remainder 5%-10%.
Country Overview. UNHCR
In April 2007, there was an estimate of over 4 million Iraqi refugees around the world, including 1.9 million in Iraq, 2 million in neighboring Middle East countries, and around 200,000 in countries outside the Middle East. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has led the humanitarian efforts for Iraqi refugees. The current Iraqi displacement crisis is the largest in the Middle East since the Palestinian displacement of 1948 during the creation of the state of Israel1.
Migration of Iraqis. April 2011. BBC
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Minorities in Iraq2 Christians Perhaps as many as half a million Assyrians and Chaldeans are thought to have fled the sectarian fighting in Iraq, with Christians bearing the brunt of animosity toward a perceived "crusade" by the United States in Iraq. Most chose to go to Syria due to the cultural similarities between the two countries, Syria's open-door policy to Iraqis, and the large population of Assyrians and other Christians in the country which perhaps totals as high as 2 million. The large influx of Iraqis may tip the demographic scale in a country with a diverse population.
Iraqis by Ethnicity and Religion. CIA World
Although Christians represent less than 5% of the total Iraqi population, they make up 40% of the refugees now living in nearby countries, according to U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Between October 2003 and March 2005 alone, 36% of 700,000 Iraqis who fled to Syria were Assyrians and other Christians, judging from a sample of those registering for asylum on political or religious grounds.
Mandaeans Mandaeans are an ancient ethnoreligious group in southern Iraq. They are the last practicing gnostic sect in the Middle East. There are thought to have been about 40,000 Mandaeans in Iraq prior to the US-led invasion. As a non-Muslim group, they have been abused by sectarian militias. The vast majority of Baghdadi Mandaeans left Baghdad; many have fled to Syria, Jordan and elsewhere while Mandaean communities of southern Iraq are mostly secure. Mandaean diaspora organizations are reportedly focusing all their resources on evacuating all the remaining Mandaeans in Iraq.
Palestinians A small Palestinian population of about 38,000 also faced pressure, with many living in the Baghdadi neighborhood of al-Baladiya. Denied access by Syria, more than 350 Palestinians remained in "inhumane conditions" on the Syrian border until finally being allowed into the country. They face more uncertain conditions because most Palestinians do not hold Iraqi citizenship and consequently do not hold passports. The UNHCR appealed to Israel to allow this particular group of refugees admission into the occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank. The agency said that from resettlement countries, only Canada and Syria had taken Palestinians from Iraq in the past.
Yazidis The Yazidi community was affected by several acts of violence in 2007. On April 23, 2007 masked gunmen abducted and shot 23 Yazidis near Mosul. On August 14, 2007 Yazidis were targeted in a series of bombings that became the deadliest suicide attack since the Iraq War began.
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U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Background Information on the Situation of Non-Muslim Religious Minorities in Iraq (Oct. 2005). http://www.unhcr.org/cgibin/texis/vtx/rsd/rsddocview.pdf?tbl=RSDLEGAL&id=4371cf5b4 Aitor Sรกez / aitorsaezreporter@gmail.com / www.aitorsaez.com
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Current number of Iraqis in all countries
Displaced Iraqis around the World. April 2007. www.theatlantic.com
Recent Displacements3 There are currently almost 220,000 refugees registered with the UNHCR in Iraq, the vast majority in Iraqi Kurdistan. Iraq sent more than one million refugees across the border to Syria during the first decade of this century. However now, in a reversal of roles also seen with Lebanon, it is Iraq that is receiving refugees from Syria. The majority of Syrian refugees in Iraq reside in the Kurdistan province of Duhok. In June 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant took control of the Iraqi city Mosul, sparking a second refugee crisis in the country. 4
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Iraq IDPs Figures Analysis. November 2014. Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. http://www.internal-displacement.org/middle-east-and-north-africa/iraq/figures-analysis 4 A snapshot of the crisis – in the Middle East and Europe. Migration Policy Centre. http://syrianrefugees.eu/?page_id=83
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Between 1 January and 15 November 2014 IOM has identified over 1.967 million people displaced by fighting between the Iraqi security forces, Kurdish Peshmerga and armed opposition groups, among which the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) (IOM, 1 November 2014). The fighting, which started in December 2013, has caused various waves of displacement now affecting all Iraqi governorates: War’s Toll. UNHCR
Up to 472,000 people were displaced between late December 2013 and the end of May 2014 in the Anbar governorate, following intense fighting in Fallujah and Ramadi (IOM, 15 November 2014).
At least 469,000 people were displaced in June and July 2014 after armed groups, among which ISIL, took control of Iraq’s second city of Mosul and fighting spread across Ninewa and the central governorates of Salah Al Din, Diyala and Kirkuk, as well as other cities in Anbar governorate (IOM, 15 November 2014).
Over 1,026,756 people were since August 2014, the majority of whom fled heavy fighting between ISIL and Kurdish Peshmerga in Ninewa governorate, primarily in the Sinjar area (IOM, 15 November 2014).
The latest wave of displacement witnessed the addition of a cross-border element, as some 55,000 IDPs from Sinjar crossed into Syria, most of whom then crossed back into the Kurdish Region (OCHA, 15 August 2014). Many people reportedly remain unable to leave areas engulfed in heavy fighting or surrounded by ISIL (OCHA, 26 August 2014; OCHA, 17 August 2014).
Iraqi Asylum Applications in 38 industrialized countries
2006 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, IDPs. UNHCR, 16 July 2007
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Planing Figures. Country Operations Profile – Iraq. 2014. UNHCR
Christian Refugees The war on Christians in the Middle East has been under way for years now, as has an exodus of Biblical proportions. There were 1.4 million Christians in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, who treated churchgoers and Muslims with equal brutality. After the sectarian warfare that followed his ousting, two thirds of those Christians fled – many to Syria, where they are now confronting the same brand of Sunni insurgents who view them as apostates. The brutality meted out to them is some of the worst violence seen for a generation.
Testimony of Christian Iraqi Refugee living in Germany
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The Guardian published that the violence faced by Assyrians has led to a drop in their numbers in Iraq from at least 800,000 in 2003 to 400,000 in 2011. The 2009 Catholic Almanac puts the numbers much higher - a drop from 1.5 million mostly Assyrian Christians in Iraq in 2003 to just 500,000 in 2009. Some estimate the updated number of Chaldo-Assyrian Christians in Iraq at just 300,000. The UN High Commission for Refugees estimated in 2007 that one third of 1.8 million Iraqi refugees were Assyrian Christians. A similar percentage of the 1.6 million internally displaced within Iraq in 2007 were likely Assyrian Christian, many of whom had fled Baghdad, Basra and Mosul to the relatively stable Northern Iraq.5
Iraqi Christian Refugees. UNHCR
Today, he is one of approximately 100,000 Christians who sought refuge from the wrath of the Islamic State in and around Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq.6 A decade ago, an estimated 60,000 Christians lived in Mosul. Those numbers plummeted after several waves of attacks on Christians following the 2003 American invasion and ousting of Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein.7
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FRASER NELSON. ‘Why are we not offering asylum to the Iraqi refugees?’. The Telegraph. August 15, 2014. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11034532/Why-are-we-notoffering-asylum-to-the-Iraqi-refugees.html 6 FRANZ STEFAN GADI. ‘Fleeing Quarakosh: The Last Christians in Iraq’. 01/09/2014. Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/franzstefan-gady/fleeing-quarakosh-the-last-iraq_b_5740388.html 7 ‘Escape from Mosul’. July 24, 2014. Christian Aid Mission. http://www.christianaid.org/News/2014/mir20140723.aspx Aitor Sáez / aitorsaezreporter@gmail.com / www.aitorsaez.com
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Situation in Greece The number of Iraqis in Greece is unclear since numbers fluctuate greatly over time. As of 2007, Greece hosted 1,400 Iraqi refugees. Proving helpful, Greece offered one million dollars to Iraq for humanitarian purposes, this may be because they do not want to take in any refugees, as it was reported that Iraqis trying to enter Greece from Turkey are most definitely likely to be sent back to Iraq. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has confirmed that a group of 135 Iraqis were arrested while preparing to cross into Greece has been sent back to Iraq. As Greece has the toughest migration policy in Europe, allowing only less than one percent of applications through. The UNHCR claims there to be 820 Iraqi refugees living in Greece. A further 1,415 have applied for asylum.
Greece is the most common entry point into the EU for Iraqis. A large proportion enters the country after a treacherous journey across the quasi-border separating Central and Southern Iraq from the northern KRG (Kurdish Regional Government)-controlled regions, from where they cross the mountains into Turkey. Thereafter, they continue along the same routes as thousands of illegal migrants, arriving at one of the Greek islands by speedboat or crossing the Greco-Turkish land border. Alternatively, Iraqis have reached the EU by air, first risking a trip to Baghdad airport along what has been labelled ‘the most dangerous road in Iraq’10. From here, industrialised countries can be reached via flights to Damascus, Amman, Beirut or Dubai11. From Greece, Iraqis generally travel on before making an asylum claim, either to the northern European countries, or to Madrid from where the USA or Latin America can be reached.8
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MARKUS SPERL, New Issues in Refugee Research. Research Paper no. 144: Fortress Europe and the Iraqi ‘intruders’: Iraqi asylum-seekers and the EU, 2003-2007. UNHCR, October 2007. http://www.unhcr.org/470c9be92.pdf Aitor Sáez / aitorsaezreporter@gmail.com / www.aitorsaez.com
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The Topic Syrian refugees launch hunger strike outside Greek parliament RUPTLY / November 25, 2014 In a bid for better living conditions, temporary working permits and medical care, up to 200 Syrians fleeing the war-torn country and seeking asylum in the EU, have begun a hunger strike in Athens’ main square. Protesters began to gather on Syntagma Square last week, camping out and sleeping on cardboard boxes and in sleeping bags before staging the hunger strike on Monday, reports Reuters. The demonstrators, many of who sat with masking tape covering their mouths, called for the Greek government find a way to solve the refugee crisis. Currently, many of the refugees are living in detention centers that formerly housed army barracks. The facilities are reported to be overcrowded and allegedly pose health risks to residents. The financially strapped Greek government says it simply does not have the resources to deal with the growing refugee problem. Athens prefect and member of the left-wing Syriza Party, Rena Douro promised that the government would do everything possible to work out a solution and said she was trying to secure arrangements for the refugees via discussions with the Church of Greece and police officials. “We must look at the issue of accommodating refugees from Syria because it is certain that their numbers will increase in the future,” Dourou said in a statement. For the refugees, however, the promises are not enough. To draw attention to their plight and demand help, the hunger strikers are now eating only sugar. "People are living in bad conditions. We get (temporary) travel documents, but we can't go anywhere. We can't work, or go to hospital, or rent a place to live," said Khaldoon Fadel, a 31-year-old hunger striker from Damascus, told the AP. The bulk of the refugees hope to leave financially crippled Greece for Northern Europe. Based on EU immigration policy, the migrants cannot move to other EU countries unless on a tourist visa, and can only stay a maximum of 90 days every six months. According to Greek officials cited by AP, the number of Syrian refugees crossing into Greece this year will be three times more than in 2013. Some 2,500 migrants have drowned in the central Mediterranean while attempting to cross into Europe according to an Amnesty International report released in September. Just this Tuesday, Greece sent a frigate to rescue a freight ship suffering from engine failure believed to be carrying hundreds of undocumented migrants off the coast of Crete, according to the Greek coast guard. Syria, ravaged by a three-year civil war and an escalating conflict with Islamic State extremists which has claimed over 190,000 lives according to the UN human rights office, currently accounts for the largest number of asylum applicants to EU countries, with most hoping to settle in Germany or Sweden, based on Eurostat figures.
Ahmed Moawia, Coordinator of the Greek Forum of Migrants
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Pakistani Association in Greece CONTACT Address: Str. Anaxagora 16 Omonia, 10435 Athens Tel: +30 210 5228247 / Cell: +30 6936628860 Email: pakassgreece@yahoo.com
Description We are serving the Pakistan Community to follow our Slogan "We Came on a way to Serve the People". Being a Human It is our primary goal to facilitate the Pakistani People here in Greece. Also our team is busy for welfare of Pakistani people. We are here in the society since 09 July 2009 for the betterment of pakistani people. but in future time will proove our services. Our mission statement is not a formal statement. Just we would like to say that we are busy round the clock for the solutions of Pakistani Community Problems here in Greece, even the economic crises of the time.
Pakistani Community CONTACT Kosma Aitolou 2, Athens Contact Person: Anwar Iqbal Tel: (+30) 6944.95.18.03 Email: annou1970@yahoo.co.uk Blog: http://pakistancommunitygr.blogspot.gr/
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Iraqi Music Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq and fall of Saddam Hussein, some militant extremists have been attacking musicians, especially those in the port city of Basra, where Shia extremists are believed to be responsible. Basra's sea shanties are well known throughout Iraq. Music shops in the Summar district have been the target of grenade bombings. Religious leaders have closed some of the concert halls and clubs in the city.9 It was in the area north of Mosul that people started to write the modern Syriac vernacular more than two hundred years before the American missionaries. The earliest dated text is a poem written in 1591. The modernization of the Assyrian Music10 began from the contact with the British, especially the period after the independence of Iraq in 1932.
Evin Agassi11 is an ethnic Assyrian singer from Iran that has become one of the most prolific Assyrian singers releasing close to 30 albums during his career. He settled in the United States soon after the Islamic Revolution of Iran where he continued releasing albums with his brother. He also gives concerts regularly in the United States, Europe and Australia. His recent album "The Circle Of Life" released in 2012 has been one of his most anticipated albums. Evin Agassi: Assyrian Khoba Evin Agassi: Kikhweh
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Claudia Hanna (born in 1985 in Baghdad), better known as Klodia12, is an Assyrian singer and model. She currently lives in Cairo working on her debut album following the release of her first single in the Egyptian dialect, "Bandam Awy". She worked as a model for several years and even she won the title of Miss Arab World. After she decided to start her music career. Her single "Bandam Awy" was a great success in the Arab World and the music video for "Bandam Awy" won the award for Best Emerging Singer Oscar International Video Clip.
Claudia Hanna ‘Klodia’: Bandam Awy
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Iraqi Music. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Iraq Assyrian Music. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian/Syriac_folk_music 11 Evin Agassi. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evin_Agassi 12 Claudia Hanna. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klodia_Hanna 10
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Ashur Bet Sargis13 is an Assyrian composer and singer. He became famous in the Assyrian communities worldwide for his nationalistic songs in the 1970s. Shortly after the Ba'ath led revolution of 1968, Ashur fled the unstable political situation in Iraq in 1969, ending up in Chicago. A year later he formed his first band, “East Bird Band”, which released its first recording. He also returned to Northern Iraq may times where he did many concert prior to the Iraq war.
Ashur Bet Sargis: Bet Nahrain Atrewa
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Latest News *Not necessary from Iraq. This section compiles the most relevant news about refugees in the last week/month. From The New York14 Times and The Guardian15.
Pope Says Europe Seems ‘Elderly and Haggard’ European leaders should pay close attention to a speech Pope Francis delivered to the European Union Parliament on Tuesday, in which he chastised them for not doing enough to alleviate the suffering of the less fortunate. He said that the E.U. should adopt a common approach to dealing with refugees who have been dying by the thousands on their way to Europe. “We cannot allow the Mediterranean to become a vast cemetery!” he said. “The boats landing daily on the shores of Europe are filled with men and women who need acceptance and assistance.”
Famous Australians record song condemning treatment of asylum seeker children A group of more than 30 high-profile Australians, including actors Bryan Brown, Claudia Karvan and Deborah Mailman, businesswoman Ita Buttrose, author Thomas Keneally and former Wallabies captain George Gregan, have come together to record a song that highlights the plight of child asylum seekers in detention.
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Ashur Bet Sargis. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashur_Bet_Sargis Search: ‘Refugees‘. The New York Times, September-November 2014. http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/refugees/since1851/allresults/1/allauthors/newest/ 15 Search: ‘Refugees’. The Guradian, November 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/world/refugees 14
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The recording brings together noted figures from a diverse range of fields, including business, the arts, academia, sport, religion and media, who together condemn the conditions in which children are being detained, particularly on the islands of Nauru and Christmas Island, highlighting an unsafe environment and lack of schooling.
More than 600 migrants rescued in Mediterranean, says Italian coastguard More than 600 migrants were rescued from the Mediterranean between Sicily and north Africa this weekend, according to the Italian coastguard. One man is feared drowned. The coastguard said it had picked up 520 migrants in the Strait of Sicily between Thursday night and Friday, and then went to help a merchant ship 60 miles north of Tripoli that had picked up 93 others. Another ship carrying a Singaporean flag picked up a further 78 migrants. It was not immediately clear where these migrants came from. Further east, 270 Syrian refugees, including 30 children, were rescued off northern Cyprus overnight when their ship’s engine broke down, the Kibris Postasi website in Nicosia reported. It was thought to have sailed from Turkey. Italy said last month it planned to close its “Mare Nostrum” mission, which has saved more than 100,000 migrants fleeing war, poverty and human rights abuses in Africa.
Burmese refugees pay up to $1,000 for official refugee status in Malaysia Burmese refugees and asylum seekers are paying up to $1,000 (£650) for UNHCR cards granting them official refugee status in Malaysia, an undercover al-Jazeera investigation has found. Officials from the UN’s refugee agency have been recorded openly describing themselves as “thieves” for brokering the illegal trade of registration documents. “All the money from this activity goes into the pockets of some top guys in the UN,” a UN translator claimed in alJazeera’s current affairs programme 101 East. “We have been doing this … for a long time. We are thieves, and we look for thieves above us.”
Amnesty report reveals desperate plight of Syrian refugees in Turkey More than 1 million Syrian refugees who have flocked to Turkey to escape fighting at home are struggling to survive on their own, with government-run refugee camps operating at full capacity, according to a report by Amnesty International. Aitor Sáez / aitorsaezreporter@gmail.com / www.aitorsaez.com
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Turkey has been lauded for its swift response to the massive influx of Syrians, but the international community has failed to find sustainable ways to assist, the report says. Turkey hosts 1.6 million Syrian refugees, half of the total that have left Syria since the war began in March 2011. So far, the Turkish government has spent about $4bn (£3bn) on the refugees, and theoretically grants free healthcare to all Syrian refugees. About 220,000 are living in 22 government-run camps, which offer food and essential services, the report said. The remaining 1.38 million – more than 85% – are living outside the camps, mostly in communities along the Turkey-Syrian border.
Riot police deployed after violence against refugees in Rome Riot police have been deployed in a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Rome to prevent residents from attacking refugees at a holding centre, the latest incident of anti-immigrant tensions in Italy. The working-class neighbourhood of Tor Sapienza has seen several days and nights of violence against refugees by residents who blame foreigners for crimes. The UN high commissioner for refugees condemned the violence, saying refugees and unaccompanied minors fleeing war and conflict deserved protection, respect and help to integrate, not “unacceptable” acts of violence and intolerance.
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References Statistics CAMERON THIBOS. History of Iraq Refugee issues. ‘35 years of forced displacement in Iraq: Contexualising the ISIS threat, unpacking the movements’. October 2014. http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/33151/MPC-PB_2014-04.pdf?sequence=1 ‘Statistics on Displaced Iraqis around the World’. April 2007. UNHCR. http://www.unhcr.org/461f7cb92.pdf U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Background Information on the Situation of Non-Muslim Religious Minorities in Iraq (Oct. 2005). http://www.unhcr.org/cgibin/texis/vtx/rsd/rsddocview.pdf?tbl=RSDLEGAL&id=4371cf5b4 Iraq IDPs Figures Analysis. November 2014. Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. http://www.internal-displacement.org/middle-east-and-north-africa/iraq/figures-analysis A snapshot of the crisis – in the Middle East and Europe. Migration Policy Centre. http://syrianrefugees.eu/?page_id=83 FRASER NELSON. ‘Why are we not offering asylum to the Iraqi refugees?’. The Telegraph. August 15, 2014. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11034532/Why-are-we-notoffering-asylum-to-the-Iraqi-refugees.html FRANZ STEFAN GADI. ‘Fleeing Quarakosh: The Last Christians in Iraq’. 01/09/2014. Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/franzstefan-gady/fleeing-quarakosh-the-last-iraq_b_5740388.html ‘Escape from Mosul’. July 24, 2014. Christian Aid Mission. http://www.christianaid.org/News/2014/mir20140723.aspx MARKUS SPERL, New Issues in Refugee Research. Research Paper no. 144: Fortress Europe and the Iraqi ‘intruders’: Iraqi asylum-seekers and the EU, 2003-2007. UNHCR, October 2007. http://www.unhcr.org/470c9be92.pdf
Graphs Planing Figures. Country Operations Profile – Iraq. 2014. UNHCR. http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e486426.html Displaced Iraqis around the World. April 2007. www.theatlantic.com. http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e486426.html Migration of Iraqis. April 2011. BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6998372.stm Iraqi Christians: Overview. 2014. www.cnewa.org. Based on UNHCR Statistics. http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=404&pagetypeID=1&sitecode=IQUS&pageno=1
Music Iraqi Music. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Iraq Assyrian Music. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian/Syriac_folk_music Evin Agassi. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evin_Agassi Claudia Hanna. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klodia_Hanna Ashur Bet Sargis. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashur_Bet_Sargis Evin Agassi. Assyrian Khoba. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnH2fTQ0TpU Evin Agassi. Kikhweh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RQp6e0zkqc Ashur Bet Sargis. Bet Nahrain Atrewa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYqTyegRcyA Klodia. Bandam Awy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDP-9TBRfB4 David Simon. Assyrian Song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2vFE2QZErg&feature=youtu.be
News Search: ‘Refugees‘. The New York Times, September-November 2014. http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/refugees/since1851/allresults/1/allauthors/newest/ Search: ‘Refugees’. The Guradian, November 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/world/refugees
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