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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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Sources

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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 Unpublished.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

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

Proposed 1

A A record of what was studied and assessed in a course or pathway; it is not a certificate or a qualification. shows what was studied and assessed. It is not a certificate or a qualification.

04Communities of practice

No A group of practitioners of one field who work together on courses, standards and toolkits; the charter calls it a Standards area. is Being set up: nobody is listed as a member and nothing runs yet. for this discipline yet.

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

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  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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