The Research Topic, Migrants' psychosocial health: cultural and religious resources through resilience and coping, is published in Frontiers and addresses how resilience and coping strategies are expressed among the most vulnerable communities, and how they are bearing the burden and enduring the most dire consequences of recent crises, not the least the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. People with migrant backgrounds, refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, who were already experiencing multifaceted repressions and discrimination, now find themselves in an even more vulnerable situation ranging from immediate....
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Authors: William Warda - Hammurabi Human Rights Organization | Dr. Hamed Shihab - University of Baghdad
Iraq has attracted migrants since ancient times for a number of reasons: its cultural richness since the days of Babylon, Assyria and Nineveh, its natural resources, including oil, phosphates and sulfur, and abundant agriculture and livestock thanks to its two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. However, the scale of mass migrations over the centuries never approached levels seen starting in 2011, when waves of Syrian refugees fleeing violence and armed conflict began to arrive in Iraq…
Read MoreRESPOND Policy Brief [2021/11]
Authors: William Warda - Hammurabi Human Rights Organization | Dr. Hamed Shihab - University of Baghdad
Although Iraq has faced conflict and difficult trials over the past three decades, it had not faced a large internal displacement crisis, until 2014 when Daesh occupied a third of its territory.
In 2014 more than five million Iraqis were forced from their homes. This displacement led to humanitarian repercussions and political, legal…
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