The characteristics of Kurdish immigrants and the causes of their leaving
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31918/twejer.2032.07کلمات کلیدی:
migration, external migration, illegal migrationچکیده
In the last couple of years, there was a huge flew of immigrating young people form Kurdistan region to western countries. This flew of immigration links to emerge three key crises consecutively. Firstly, economic crisis begun in the commence of 2014 by cutting the share of Kurdistan form Iraqi federal budget, it was proliferated by falling oil price to its lowest level. Secondly, ISIS fighting causes to flee approximately 2 million people in the mid of 2014 form their region to Kurdistan, it placed a large financial burden on Kurdistan, the situation got worse by ISIS attack on Kurdistan. Lastly, political crisis in mid of 2014 due to the disagreement of Kurdistan parties on Kurdistan region presidential law faced the region with a very difficult and instability situation. The three crises have continued, but they have lost their severe and the flow of immigration also has slowed. In this study I try to find out the causes of immigrating, and also I investigate the immigrants’ characteristics and the nature of the immigration.