# Waves of Kurdish migration

_Course · The Kurdish Cooperation Organization · https://kurds.global/learn/courses/waves-of-kurdish-migration/_

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

## Record

- **Code**: KCO-DIA-01
- **School**: Diaspora studies
- **Levels**: F
- **Hours**: 16 · estimated hours
- **Format**: Self-paced online with family-history exercises.
- **State**: outlined
- **Run**: built
- **Modules**: Old dispersions · Labour migration · Refugees of the 1980s and 1990s · Syria and after · Kurds in the former Soviet Union · Counting the diaspora
- **Outcomes**: 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.

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## See also

- [The Academy](https://kurds.global/learn/)