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Kurdish diaspora studies

Kurdish diaspora studies examine why Kurds left, where they settled and how each community took shape.

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Faculty of Kurdish Studies
Before you begin The Kurdish Cooperation Organization is a federation of communities that learn from one another. It is not a university, claims no public authority and serves no government, party or faith body.Contested subject

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  1. After decades spent gathering Kurdish literature and cultural artifacts for an “exile museum,” one man’s life’s work is under threat. (2026). Kurdish Exile Museum.
  2. Afrouz Zibaei (2026). Bridging Continents The Influence of Diaspora Kurdish Feminists on Women’s Rights in Kurdistan. Zenodo. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18905051
  3. Haci Cevik (2025). From Konya to Europe and back: diaspora politics and the reinvention of Kurdish identity in Central Anatolia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI 10.1080/1369183x.2025.2556700
  4. Francis Patrick O’Connor (2024). Radical Political Participation and the Internal Kurdish Diaspora in Turkey. Kurdish Studies Archive. DOI 10.1163/9789004706590_004
  5. Anne Sofie Schøtt (2021). Becoming a Diaspora: The Kurds and the Kurdish Activists in Denmark. Kurdish Diaspora Mobilisation in Denmark. DOI 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474491709.003.0005

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01Fields

The A narrower topic within a discipline. this discipline covers.

  • Waves of migration
  • Kurds in Germany
  • Kurds in the Nordic countries
  • Kurds in France, the Benelux and the UK
  • Kurds in North America, Australia and Japan
  • Kurdish media in exile

02Classification

Where the discipline sits in the international lists of fields.

SchemeCodeSteward
OECD Fields of Research and Development (FORD), Frascati Manual 2015, Table 2.25.9OECD
ISCED Fields of Education and Training 2013 (ISCED-F 2013)0314UNESCO Institute for Statistics

03Courses

Outlined 1

  • Kurdish diaspora studies · Foundations

    Waves of Kurdish migration

    Why Kurds left home in each era, where they went, and how their communities formed.

    Wave 1 · 16 h Outline drafted

Proposed 6

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04Communities of practice

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05Contribute to this field

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06Related service subsites

  • Research

    Kurdish studies: the observatory, reading lists and new research.

  • Heritage

    History from the Zagros to today, memory, faiths, arts, literature and food.

  • Development

    Social programmes, livelihoods and disaster preparedness for Kurdish communities.

07More in this department

  • Open

    Kurdish society and politics

    This field compares Kurdish society and politics across states, descriptively and with no party line.

    5 courses5 fields

  • Open

    Land and environment of Kurdistan

    This field studies the mountains, rivers, lakes and forests of Kurdistan and the risks they face.

    4 courses4 fields

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APA

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Kurdish diaspora studies. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdish-diaspora-studies/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Kurdish Diaspora Studies.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdish-diaspora-studies/.

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	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Kurdish diaspora studies},
	url = {https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdish-diaspora-studies/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdish-diaspora-studies/},
}

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08Research and sources

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  1. After decades spent gathering Kurdish literature and cultural artifacts for an “exile museum,” one man’s life’s work is under threat.

    2026 · Kurdish Exile Museum

    ArticleKurdish Exile Museum

  2. Bridging Continents The Influence of Diaspora Kurdish Feminists on Women’s Rights in Kurdistan

    Afrouz Zibaei · 2026 · Zenodo

    ThesisZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  3. From Konya to Europe and back: diaspora politics and the reinvention of Kurdish identity in Central Anatolia

    Haci Cevik · 2025 · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

    ArticleCrossrefCC-BY-4.0

  4. Radical Political Participation and the Internal Kurdish Diaspora in Turkey

    Francis Patrick O’Connor · 2024 · Kurdish Studies Archive

    ChapterCrossrefCC-BY-4.0

  5. Becoming a Diaspora: The Kurds and the Kurdish Activists in Denmark

    Anne Sofie Schøtt · 2021 · Kurdish Diaspora Mobilisation in Denmark

    ChapterCrossrefOpenAIRE

  6. Diaspora as socio‐material assemblage: Political agency in the Kurdish freedom movement’s representations of homeland

    Francesco Ventura · 2023 · Global Networks

    ArticleCrossref

  7. Kurdish Diaspora in Northern Iraq

    Mason Krebsbach · 2023 · Unpublished

    ArticleDataCite

  8. 3D SCAN OF THE KURDISH EXILE MUSEUM IN STOCKHOLM

    2024 · Kurdish Exile Museum

    ArticleKurdish Exile Museum

  9. Non-return and Re-emigration: The Case of Kurds from the Kurdistan Region-Iraq in Western Europe

    Aghapouri J, Mofidi S · 2026 · Research Square

    PreprintEurope PMC

  10. Prefiguring Kurdish Queer Existence in Diaspora

    Canan Coşkan · 2026 · Unpublished

    ArticleDataCite

  11. The Kurdish Diaspora(s)

    Ayar Ata · 2023 · Transnational Migration, Diaspora, and Identity

    ChapterCrossref

  12. Language Planning in the Diaspora: Corpus and Prestige Planning for Kurdish

    Salih Akin · 2017 · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

    ChapterOpenAlex

Sources, licences and fetch dates: Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; DataCite (CC0 1.0 (DataCite metadata)), 2026-10-23; Europe PMC (Metadata reusable; full text under each article’s licence), 2026-10-23; Kurdish Exile Museum (Site feed; headline and link only), 2026-10-23; OpenAIRE (CC BY 4.0 (OpenAIRE Graph)), 2026-10-23; OpenAlex (CC0-1.0 data; metered API (free key)), 2026-10-23; Zenodo (Metadata CC0 1.0; each record under its own licence), 2026-10-23.

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