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Kurdish diaspora studies

Waves of Kurdish migration

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

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Foundations
Study time
16 h
Wave
1
Status
Outline drafted

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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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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.
  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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01About this course

Who it is for
Kurds abroad of every generation, researchers and partners in host countries.
Format
Self-paced online with family-history exercises.
Study time
About 16 hours, estimated
Before you start
Nothing. Everyone is welcome.
Discipline
Kurdish diaspora studies

02What you will be able to do

  • Tell apart the main waves of Kurdish migration and what caused each.
  • Explain why many statistics count Kurds only by citizenship.
  • Compare how Kurdish communities formed in two or more countries.
  • Record a family migration story with consent.

03Modules

  1. 01

    Old dispersions

    Khorasan, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

  2. 02

    Labour migration

    Recruitment to Germany and Western Europe from the 1960s.

  3. 03

    Refugees of the 1980s and 1990s

    From Türkiye, Iraq and Iran.

  4. 04

    Syria and after

    Departures since 2011.

  5. 05

    Kurds in the former Soviet Union

    Deportations and communities in Kazakhstan and beyond.

  6. 06

    Counting the diaspora

    Measures, sources and why numbers differ.

04Assessment and completion

An interview with a relative about their migration, made with consent and kept by the family, plus a short reflection.

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06Who teaches it

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07More from Kurdish diaspora studies

08Further reading

Suggested by open metadata, not yet reviewed.

  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

Sources, licences and fetch dates: Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 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; Zenodo (Metadata CC0 1.0; each record under its own licence), 2026-10-23.

09Record

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0.1, draft outline
Review
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Licence
CC BY 4.0
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APA

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Waves of Kurdish migration. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/catalogue/waves-of-kurdish-migration/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Waves of Kurdish Migration.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/catalogue/waves-of-kurdish-migration/.

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@misc{kco2026_learn_catalogue_waves_of_kurdish_migration,
	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Waves of {Kurdish} migration},
	url = {https://kurds.global/learn/catalogue/waves-of-kurdish-migration/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/learn/catalogue/waves-of-kurdish-migration/},
}

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