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Migration and refugee studies

Forced displacement, settlement, return and statelessness, from the camps of the region to European cities.

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Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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.Migration and status

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In context

  • Migration and status Rules on residence, asylum and status differ by country and change often. This is not immigration advice. Ask a regulated adviser where you live.

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  1. Afrouz Zibaei (2025). Using Narratives to Investigate the Experiences of Kurdish Refugees. Zenodo. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17903883
  2. Forced Migration Online (2026). Western European responses to refugees and asylum seekers, and Kurdish asylum seekers in particular. Paper given to the conference ‘Kurds, a new and tragic dimension, refugees and asylum seekers’ 4 December 1989. University of Oxford. DOI 10.25446/oxford.33383485
  3. Veysi Dag (2023). Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI 10.1080/1369183x.2023.2193864
  4. Hirotaka Fujibayashi (2020). When public opinion drives national asylum policymaking: The case of Kurdish asylum seekers in Japan. Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies. DOI 10.1002/app5.301
  5. Marie Reyher (2025). Statelessness of Kurdish Refugees: Challenges in the Asylum Process. Unpublished. DOI 10.13140/rg.2.2.28821.79847

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01Fields

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

  • Forced displacement
  • Settlement and integration
  • Return and circular migration
  • Statelessness
  • Migration policy

02Classification

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03Courses

Proposed 1

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04Communities of practice

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05Contribute to this field

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06Related service subsites

  • Development

    Social programmes, livelihoods and disaster preparedness for Kurdish communities.

  • Civic

    Civic education, rights literacy, statelessness help and dialogue.

  • Research

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

07More in this department

  • Open

    Diaspora studies

    Communities that live apart from a homeland and keep ties to it, and the politics of those ties.

    1 course4 fields

  • Open

    Social research methods and ethics

    Collecting evidence about people fairly and safely, when those people may be at risk.

    1 course5 fields

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APA

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Migration and refugee studies. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/migration-studies/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Migration and Refugee Studies.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/migration-studies/.

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	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Migration and refugee studies},
	url = {https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/migration-studies/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/migration-studies/},
}

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08Research and sources

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  1. Using Narratives to Investigate the Experiences of Kurdish Refugees

    Afrouz Zibaei · 2025 · Zenodo

    ArticleDataCiteZenodoOpenAIREOpen accessapache-2.0

  2. Western European responses to refugees and asylum seekers, and Kurdish asylum seekers in particular. Paper given to the conference ‘Kurds, a new and tragic dimension, refugees and asylum seekers’ 4 December 1989

    Forced Migration Online · 2026 · University of Oxford

    OtherOpenAlexDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-NC-ND

  3. Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies

    Veysi Dag · 2023 · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

    ArticleCrossrefCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

  4. When public opinion drives national asylum policymaking: The case of Kurdish asylum seekers in Japan

    Hirotaka Fujibayashi · 2020 · Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies

    ArticleCrossrefDOAJOpen accessCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

  5. Statelessness of Kurdish Refugees: Challenges in the Asylum Process

    Marie Reyher · 2025 · Unpublished

    ArticleDataCite

  6. Afghan and Kurdish refugees, 8–20 years after resettlement, still experience psychological distress and challenges to well being

    Cheryl M. R. Sulaiman‐Hill, Sandra C. Thompson · 2012 · Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  7. Understanding the Mental Health Literacy in Kurdish Refugees

    Zibaei A · 2018 · Mental Health & Human Resilience International Journal

    ArticleCrossref

  8. Stateless in School: The ‘discomfort’ of Kurdish asylum seekers

    Ailbhe Kenny · 2022 · Intercultural Education

    ArticleCrossref

  9. Asylum Seekers / Patron Seekers: Interpreting Iraqi Kurdish Migration

    Diane E. King · 2005 · Human Organization

    ArticleCrossref

  10. Systematic review of mental health problems and migration stressors among Kurdish migrants in western host countries.

    Ahmed DR, Kamal SK, Mesbah SM et al. · 2025 · Discov Ment Health

    ArticleEurope PMCOpen access

  11. Racialization in Switzerland: experiences of children of refugees from Kurdish, Tamil and Vietnamese backgrounds

    Laurence Ossipow, Anne-Laure Counilh, Milena Chimienti · 2019 · Comparative Migration Studies

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  12. Is self-compassion relevant for refugees? A cross-sectional study of the relationship between self-compassion and depression among Kurdish refugees in Norway

    Evin Rashidian, Frida Kildal, Valeria Markova et al. · 2025 · Nordic Psychology

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

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