Population Movements, Power and Identities in Contemporary Iraq: A Research agenda
Résumé
One particular blind spot in the historiography of contemporary Iraq is the question of the recurrence and durability of population displacement and forced migration. What appears to be lacking is not historical and empirical material – varied in nature and perspective -- but rather a conceptual effort to link together various types and episodes of involuntary migration to try to make sense of the recurrence of the phenomenon and of a certain regularity in patterns. This is what this essay attempts by broadening the perspective to interrogate the politics of population movements from the inception of the modern Iraqi state to the present. In addition to what is classically subsumed under the phrase involuntary migration, this problematization leads to consider other types of population movements affected by the state and other political actors.
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