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Editorial

We like to say that we are living in the Globalisation Age, in a global world, where one

thing affects to the other part of the globe, and where we can know all about all over

the planet. That sounds amazing, exciting, ambicious...

It is true that we can travel wherever we desire. We can talk through a screen our

friend in Australia. We can eat fruits from Brazil. Or even wear nice clothes from Asia.

Yes, that is our globalisation: the global paradise of those who had an empire two

hundred years ago.

Nevertheless, for the other part of the world, this globalisation is rather a nightmare.

They are dying because of petrol wars, mineral exploitations and slavery. Two hundred

years ago they were taken in a boat to work in the developed countries, now it is even

not necessary. And when they try to flee from all this suffering, they die in the sea or in

the prison. That is their globalisation: the global dream of those who only can dream,

but not live.

The rich countries created the idea of a global community for our interests. We

confuse the freedom with the justice. We are now a not a free society who lives in an

unfair world.

But let’s stop with the idealism and move to the reality. Two weeks ago one Pakistani

young, Mohamed Asfak, died in a detention centre in Athens due to lack of medical

assistance.

You are listening the sound of silence.

The same silence that the European authorities use to explain the violation of the

Human Rights.

I am Aitor Sáez, and that’s ‘Borders’, a space opened to everyone, because the radio

doesn’t have borders.

Welcome!

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Statistics

An April 2009 estimate of the total Iraqi

population is 31,234,000. Iraq's population was

estimated at only 2 million in 1878. Iraq's

population as announced by the government

has reached 35 million amid a post-war

population boom.

According to the Central Intelligence Agency,

Arabs form 75%–80% of the population. 15% of

Iraq's population are Kurds. Assyrians, Turkmen

and other much smaller minorities make up the

remainder 5%-10%. Country Overview. UNHCR

In April 2007, there was an estimate of over 4 million Iraqi refugees around the world,

including 1.9 million in Iraq, 2 million in neighboring Middle East countries, and around

200,000 in countries outside the Middle East. The United Nations High Commissioner for

Refugees (UNHCR) has led the humanitarian efforts for Iraqi refugees. The current Iraqi

displacement crisis is the largest in the Middle East since the Palestinian displacement of 1948

during the creation of the state of Israel1.

Migration of Iraqis. April 2011. BBC

1 ‘Statistics on Displaced Iraqis around the World’. April 2007. UNHCR. http://www.unhcr.org/461f7cb92.pdf

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Minorities in Iraq2

Christians

Perhaps as many as half a million Assyrians and

Chaldeans are thought to have fled the sectarian

fighting in Iraq, with Christians bearing the brunt

of animosity toward a perceived "crusade" by the

United States in Iraq. Most chose to go to Syria

due to the cultural similarities between the two

countries, Syria's open-door policy to Iraqis, and

the large population of Assyrians and other

Christians in the country which perhaps totals as

high as 2 million. The large influx of Iraqis may tip

the demographic scale in a country with a diverse

population. Iraqis by Ethnicity and Religion. CIA World

Although Christians represent less than 5% of the total Iraqi population, they make up 40% of the

refugees now living in nearby countries, according to U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Between

October 2003 and March 2005 alone, 36% of 700,000 Iraqis who fled to Syria were Assyrians and other

Christians, judging from a sample of those registering for asylum on political or religious grounds.

Mandaeans

Mandaeans are an ancient ethnoreligious group in southern Iraq. They are the last practicing gnostic

sect in the Middle East. There are thought to have been about 40,000 Mandaeans in Iraq prior to the

US-led invasion. As a non-Muslim group, they have been abused by sectarian militias. The vast majority

of Baghdadi Mandaeans left Baghdad; many have fled to Syria, Jordan and elsewhere while Mandaean

communities of southern Iraq are mostly secure. Mandaean diaspora organizations are reportedly

focusing all their resources on evacuating all the remaining Mandaeans in Iraq.

Palestinians

A small Palestinian population of about 38,000 also faced pressure, with many living in the Baghdadi

neighborhood of al-Baladiya. Denied access by Syria, more than 350 Palestinians remained in "inhumane

conditions" on the Syrian border until finally being allowed into the country. They face more uncertain

conditions because most Palestinians do not hold Iraqi citizenship and consequently do not hold

passports. The UNHCR appealed to Israel to allow this particular group of refugees admission into the

occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank. The agency said that from resettlement countries, only

Canada and Syria had taken Palestinians from Iraq in the past.

Yazidis

The Yazidi community was affected by several acts of violence in 2007. On April 23, 2007 masked

gunmen abducted and shot 23 Yazidis near Mosul. On August 14, 2007 Yazidis were targeted in a series

of bombings that became the deadliest suicide attack since the Iraq War began.

2 U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Background Information on the Situation of Non-Muslim Religious Minorities in Iraq (Oct. 2005). http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rsd/rsddocview.pdf?tbl=RSDLEGAL&id=4371cf5b4

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Current number of Iraqis in all countries

Displaced Iraqis around the World. April 2007. www.theatlantic.com

Recent Displacements3

There are currently almost 220,000 refugees registered with the UNHCR in Iraq, the vast

majority in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Iraq sent more than one million refugees across the border to Syria during the first decade of

this century. However now, in a reversal of roles also seen with Lebanon, it is Iraq that is

receiving refugees from Syria. The majority of Syrian refugees in Iraq reside in the Kurdistan

province of Duhok.

In June 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant took control of the Iraqi city Mosul,

sparking a second refugee crisis in the country. 4

3 Iraq IDPs Figures Analysis. November 2014. Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. http://www.internal-displacement.org/middle-east-and-north-africa/iraq/figures-analysis 4 A snapshot of the crisis – in the Middle East and Europe. Migration Policy Centre. http://syrianrefugees.eu/?page_id=83

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Between 1 January and 15 November 2014 IOM

has identified over 1.967 million people

displaced by fighting between the Iraqi security

forces, Kurdish Peshmerga and armed opposition

groups, among which the Islamic State of Iraq

and the Levant (ISIL) (IOM, 1 November 2014).

The fighting, which started in December 2013,

has caused various waves of displacement now

affecting all Iraqi governorates:

War’s Toll. UNHCR

Up to 472,000 people were displaced between late December 2013 and the end of

May 2014 in the Anbar governorate, following intense fighting in Fallujah and Ramadi

(IOM, 15 November 2014).

At least 469,000 people were displaced in June and July 2014 after armed groups,

among which ISIL, took control of Iraq’s second city of Mosul and fighting spread

across Ninewa and the central governorates of Salah Al Din, Diyala and Kirkuk, as well

as other cities in Anbar governorate (IOM, 15 November 2014).

Over 1,026,756 people were since August 2014, the majority of whom fled heavy

fighting between ISIL and Kurdish Peshmerga in Ninewa governorate, primarily in the

Sinjar area (IOM, 15 November 2014).

The latest wave of displacement witnessed the addition of a cross-border element, as some

55,000 IDPs from Sinjar crossed into Syria, most of whom then crossed back into the Kurdish

Region (OCHA, 15 August 2014). Many people reportedly remain unable to leave areas

engulfed in heavy fighting or surrounded by ISIL (OCHA, 26 August 2014; OCHA, 17 August

2014).

Iraqi Asylum Applications in 38 industrialized countries

2006 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, IDPs. UNHCR, 16 July 2007

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Planing Figures. Country Operations Profile – Iraq. 2014. UNHCR

Christian Refugees

The war on Christians in the Middle East has been under way for years now, as has an exodus

of Biblical proportions. There were 1.4 million Christians in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, who

treated churchgoers and Muslims with equal brutality. After the sectarian warfare that

followed his ousting, two thirds of those Christians fled – many to Syria, where they are now

confronting the same brand of Sunni insurgents who view them as apostates. The brutality

meted out to them is some of the worst violence seen for a generation.

Testimony of Christian Iraqi Refugee living in Germany

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The Guardian published that the violence faced by Assyrians has led to a drop in their numbers

in Iraq from at least 800,000 in 2003 to 400,000 in 2011. The 2009 Catholic Almanac puts the

numbers much higher - a drop from 1.5 million mostly Assyrian Christians in Iraq in 2003 to

just 500,000 in 2009. Some estimate the updated number of Chaldo-Assyrian Christians in Iraq

at just 300,000.

The UN High Commission for Refugees estimated in 2007 that one third of 1.8 million Iraqi

refugees were Assyrian Christians. A similar percentage of the 1.6 million internally displaced

within Iraq in 2007 were likely Assyrian Christian, many of whom had fled Baghdad, Basra and

Mosul to the relatively stable Northern Iraq.5

Iraqi Christian Refugees. UNHCR

Today, he is one of approximately 100,000 Christians who sought refuge from the wrath of the

Islamic State in and around Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq.6

A decade ago, an estimated 60,000 Christians lived in Mosul. Those numbers plummeted after

several waves of attacks on Christians following the 2003 American invasion and ousting of

Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein.7

5 FRASER NELSON. ‘Why are we not offering asylum to the Iraqi refugees?’. The Telegraph. August 15, 2014. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11034532/Why-are-we-not-offering-asylum-to-the-Iraqi-refugees.html 6 FRANZ STEFAN GADI. ‘Fleeing Quarakosh: The Last Christians in Iraq’. 01/09/2014. Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/franzstefan-gady/fleeing-quarakosh-the-last-iraq_b_5740388.html 7 ‘Escape from Mosul’. July 24, 2014. Christian Aid Mission. http://www.christianaid.org/News/2014/mir20140723.aspx

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Situation in Greece

The number of Iraqis in Greece is unclear since numbers fluctuate greatly over time. As of

2007, Greece hosted 1,400 Iraqi refugees. Proving helpful, Greece offered one million dollars

to Iraq for humanitarian purposes, this may be because they do not want to take in any

refugees, as it was reported that Iraqis trying to enter Greece from Turkey are most definitely

likely to be sent back to Iraq.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has confirmed that a group of 135 Iraqis

were arrested while preparing to cross into Greece has been sent back to Iraq. As Greece has

the toughest migration policy in Europe, allowing only less than one percent of applications

through. The UNHCR claims there to be 820 Iraqi refugees living in Greece. A further 1,415

have applied for asylum.

Greece is the most common entry point into the EU for Iraqis. A large proportion enters the

country after a treacherous journey across the quasi-border separating Central and Southern

Iraq from the northern KRG (Kurdish Regional Government)-controlled regions, from where

they cross the mountains into Turkey. Thereafter, they continue along the same routes as

thousands of illegal migrants, arriving at one of the Greek islands by speedboat or crossing the

Greco-Turkish land border. Alternatively, Iraqis have reached the EU by air, first risking a trip to

Baghdad airport along what has been labelled ‘the most dangerous road in Iraq’10. From here,

industrialised countries can be reached via flights to Damascus, Amman, Beirut or Dubai11.

From Greece, Iraqis generally travel on before making an asylum claim, either to the northern

European countries, or to Madrid from where the USA or Latin America can be reached.8

8 MARKUS SPERL, New Issues in Refugee Research. Research Paper no. 144: Fortress Europe and the Iraqi ‘intruders’: Iraqi asylum-seekers and the EU, 2003-2007. UNHCR, October 2007. http://www.unhcr.org/470c9be92.pdf

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The Topic

Syrian refugees launch hunger strike outside Greek parliament

RUPTLY / November 25, 2014

In a bid for better living conditions, temporary working permits and medical care, up to 200 Syrians

fleeing the war-torn country and seeking asylum in the EU, have begun a hunger strike in Athens’ main

square.

Protesters began to gather on Syntagma Square last week, camping out and sleeping on cardboard

boxes and in sleeping bags before staging the hunger strike on Monday, reports Reuters. The

demonstrators, many of who sat with masking tape covering their mouths, called for the Greek

government find a way to solve the refugee crisis.

Currently, many of the refugees are living in detention centers that formerly housed army barracks. The

facilities are reported to be overcrowded and allegedly pose health risks to residents. The financially

strapped Greek government says it simply does not have the resources to deal with the growing refugee

problem.

Athens prefect and member of the left-wing Syriza Party, Rena Douro promised that the government

would do everything possible to work out a solution and said she was trying to secure arrangements for

the refugees via discussions with the Church of Greece and police officials.

“We must look at the issue of accommodating refugees from Syria because it is certain that their

numbers will increase in the future,” Dourou said in a statement. For the refugees, however, the

promises are not enough. To draw attention to their plight and demand help, the hunger strikers are

now eating only sugar.

"People are living in bad conditions. We get (temporary) travel documents, but we can't go anywhere.

We can't work, or go to hospital, or rent a place to live," said Khaldoon Fadel, a 31-year-old hunger

striker from Damascus, told the AP.

The bulk of the refugees hope to leave financially crippled Greece for Northern Europe. Based on EU

immigration policy, the migrants cannot move to other EU countries unless on a tourist visa, and can

only stay a maximum of 90 days every six months. According to Greek officials cited by AP, the number

of Syrian refugees crossing into Greece this year will be three times more than in 2013.

Some 2,500 migrants have drowned in the central Mediterranean while attempting to cross into Europe

according to an Amnesty International report released in September. Just this Tuesday, Greece sent a

frigate to rescue a freight ship suffering from engine failure believed to be carrying hundreds of

undocumented migrants off the coast of Crete, according to the Greek coast guard.

Syria, ravaged by a three-year civil war and an escalating conflict with Islamic State extremists which has

claimed over 190,000 lives according to the UN human rights office, currently accounts for the largest

number of asylum applicants to EU countries, with most hoping to settle in Germany or Sweden, based

on Eurostat figures.

Ahmed Moawia,

Coordinator of the Greek Forum of Migrants

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Pakistani Association in Greece

CONTACT

Address: Str. Anaxagora 16

Omonia, 10435 Athens

Tel: +30 210 5228247 / Cell: +30 6936628860

Email: pakassgreece@yahoo.com

Description

We are serving the Pakistan Community to follow our Slogan "We Came on a way to Serve the

People". Being a Human It is our primary goal to facilitate the Pakistani People here in Greece.

Also our team is busy for welfare of Pakistani people.

We are here in the society since 09 July 2009 for the betterment of pakistani people. but in

future time will proove our services.

Our mission statement is not a formal statement. Just we would like to say that we are busy

round the clock for the solutions of Pakistani Community Problems here in Greece, even the

economic crises of the time.

Pakistani Community

CONTACT

Kosma Aitolou 2, Athens

Contact Person: Anwar Iqbal

Tel: (+30) 6944.95.18.03

Email: annou1970@yahoo.co.uk

Blog: http://pakistancommunitygr.blogspot.gr/

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Iraqi Music

Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq and fall of Saddam Hussein, some militant extremists have been

attacking musicians, especially those in the port city of Basra, where Shia extremists are

believed to be responsible. Basra's sea shanties are well known throughout Iraq. Music shops

in the Summar district have been the target of grenade bombings. Religious leaders have

closed some of the concert halls and clubs in the city.9

It was in the area north of Mosul that people started to write the modern Syriac vernacular

more than two hundred years before the American missionaries. The earliest dated text is a

poem written in 1591. The modernization of the Assyrian Music10 began from the contact with

the British, especially the period after the independence of Iraq in 1932.

Evin Agassi11 is an ethnic Assyrian singer from Iran that has become one of the most prolific

Assyrian singers releasing close to 30 albums during his career. He settled in the United States

soon after the Islamic Revolution of Iran where he continued releasing albums with his

brother. He also gives concerts regularly in the United States, Europe and Australia. His recent

album "The Circle Of Life" released in 2012 has been one of his most anticipated albums.

Evin Agassi: Assyrian Khoba

Evin Agassi: Kikhweh

Claudia Hanna (born in 1985 in Baghdad), better known as Klodia12, is an Assyrian singer and

model. She currently lives in Cairo working on her debut album following the release of her

first single in the Egyptian dialect, "Bandam Awy". She worked as a model for several years and

even she won the title of Miss Arab World. After she decided to start her music career. Her

single "Bandam Awy" was a great success in the Arab World and the music video for "Bandam

Awy" won the award for Best Emerging Singer Oscar International Video Clip.

Claudia Hanna ‘Klodia’: Bandam Awy

9 Iraqi Music. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Iraq 10 Assyrian Music. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian/Syriac_folk_music 11 Evin Agassi. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evin_Agassi 12 Claudia Hanna. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klodia_Hanna

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Ashur Bet Sargis13 is an Assyrian composer and singer. He became famous in the Assyrian

communities worldwide for his nationalistic songs in the 1970s. Shortly after the Ba'ath led

revolution of 1968, Ashur fled the unstable political situation in Iraq in 1969, ending up in

Chicago. A year later he formed his first band, “East Bird Band”, which released its first

recording. He also returned to Northern Iraq may times where he did many concert prior to

the Iraq war.

Ashur Bet Sargis: Bet Nahrain Atrewa

Latest News

*Not necessary from Iraq. This section compiles the most relevant news about refugees in the

last week/month. From The New York14 Times and The Guardian15.

Pope Says Europe Seems ‘Elderly and Haggard’

European leaders should pay close attention to a speech Pope Francis delivered to the

European Union Parliament on Tuesday, in which he chastised them for not doing enough to

alleviate the suffering of the less fortunate. He said that the E.U. should adopt a common

approach to dealing with refugees who have been dying by the thousands on their way to

Europe. “We cannot allow the Mediterranean to become a vast cemetery!” he said. “The boats

landing daily on the shores of Europe are filled with men and women who need acceptance

and assistance.”

Famous Australians record song condemning treatment of asylum seeker children

A group of more than 30 high-profile Australians, including actors Bryan Brown, Claudia Karvan

and Deborah Mailman, businesswoman Ita Buttrose, author Thomas Keneally and former

Wallabies captain George Gregan, have come together to record a song that highlights the

plight of child asylum seekers in detention.

13 Ashur Bet Sargis. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashur_Bet_Sargis 14 Search: ‘Refugees‘. The New York Times, September-November 2014. http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/refugees/since1851/allresults/1/allauthors/newest/ 15 Search: ‘Refugees’. The Guradian, November 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/world/refugees

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The recording brings together noted figures from a diverse range of fields, including business,

the arts, academia, sport, religion and media, who together condemn the conditions in which

children are being detained, particularly on the islands of Nauru and Christmas Island,

highlighting an unsafe environment and lack of schooling.

More than 600 migrants rescued in Mediterranean, says Italian coastguard

More than 600 migrants were rescued from the Mediterranean between Sicily and north Africa

this weekend, according to the Italian coastguard. One man is feared drowned.

The coastguard said it had picked up 520 migrants in the Strait of Sicily between Thursday

night and Friday, and then went to help a merchant ship 60 miles north of Tripoli that had

picked up 93 others. Another ship carrying a Singaporean flag picked up a further 78 migrants.

It was not immediately clear where these migrants came from.

Further east, 270 Syrian refugees, including 30 children, were rescued off northern Cyprus

overnight when their ship’s engine broke down, the Kibris Postasi website in Nicosia reported.

It was thought to have sailed from Turkey.

Italy said last month it planned to close its “Mare Nostrum” mission, which has saved more

than 100,000 migrants fleeing war, poverty and human rights abuses in Africa.

Burmese refugees pay up to $1,000 for official refugee status in Malaysia

Burmese refugees and asylum seekers are paying up to $1,000 (£650) for UNHCR cards

granting them official refugee status in Malaysia, an undercover al-Jazeera investigation has

found.

Officials from the UN’s refugee agency have been recorded openly describing themselves as

“thieves” for brokering the illegal trade of registration documents. “All the money from this

activity goes into the pockets of some top guys in the UN,” a UN translator claimed in al-

Jazeera’s current affairs programme 101 East. “We have been doing this … for a long time. We

are thieves, and we look for thieves above us.”

Amnesty report reveals desperate plight of Syrian refugees in Turkey

More than 1 million Syrian refugees who have flocked to Turkey to escape fighting at home are

struggling to survive on their own, with government-run refugee camps operating at full

capacity, according to a report by Amnesty International.

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Turkey has been lauded for its swift response to the massive influx of Syrians, but the

international community has failed to find sustainable ways to assist, the report says. Turkey

hosts 1.6 million Syrian refugees, half of the total that have left Syria since the war began in

March 2011. So far, the Turkish government has spent about $4bn (£3bn) on the refugees, and

theoretically grants free healthcare to all Syrian refugees.

About 220,000 are living in 22 government-run camps, which offer food and essential services,

the report said. The remaining 1.38 million – more than 85% – are living outside the camps,

mostly in communities along the Turkey-Syrian border.

Riot police deployed after violence against refugees in Rome

Riot police have been deployed in a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Rome to prevent

residents from attacking refugees at a holding centre, the latest incident of anti-immigrant

tensions in Italy. The working-class neighbourhood of Tor Sapienza has seen several days and

nights of violence against refugees by residents who blame foreigners for crimes. The UN high

commissioner for refugees condemned the violence, saying refugees and unaccompanied

minors fleeing war and conflict deserved protection, respect and help to integrate, not

“unacceptable” acts of violence and intolerance.

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References

Statistics

CAMERON THIBOS. History of Iraq Refugee issues. ‘35 years of forced displacement in Iraq:

Contexualising the ISIS threat, unpacking the movements’. October 2014.

http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/33151/MPC-PB_2014-04.pdf?sequence=1

‘Statistics on Displaced Iraqis around the World’. April 2007. UNHCR. http://www.unhcr.org/461f7cb92.pdf U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Background Information on the Situation of Non-Muslim Religious Minorities in Iraq (Oct. 2005). http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rsd/rsddocview.pdf?tbl=RSDLEGAL&id=4371cf5b4 Iraq IDPs Figures Analysis. November 2014. Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. http://www.internal-displacement.org/middle-east-and-north-africa/iraq/figures-analysis A snapshot of the crisis – in the Middle East and Europe. Migration Policy Centre. http://syrianrefugees.eu/?page_id=83 FRASER NELSON. ‘Why are we not offering asylum to the Iraqi refugees?’. The Telegraph. August 15, 2014. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11034532/Why-are-we-not-offering-asylum-to-the-Iraqi-refugees.html FRANZ STEFAN GADI. ‘Fleeing Quarakosh: The Last Christians in Iraq’. 01/09/2014. Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/franzstefan-gady/fleeing-quarakosh-the-last-iraq_b_5740388.html ‘Escape from Mosul’. July 24, 2014. Christian Aid Mission. http://www.christianaid.org/News/2014/mir20140723.aspx MARKUS SPERL, New Issues in Refugee Research. Research Paper no. 144: Fortress Europe and the Iraqi ‘intruders’: Iraqi asylum-seekers and the EU, 2003-2007. UNHCR, October 2007. http://www.unhcr.org/470c9be92.pdf

Graphs Planing Figures. Country Operations Profile – Iraq. 2014. UNHCR. http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e486426.html Displaced Iraqis around the World. April 2007. www.theatlantic.com. http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e486426.html Migration of Iraqis. April 2011. BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6998372.stm Iraqi Christians: Overview. 2014. www.cnewa.org. Based on UNHCR Statistics. http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=404&pagetypeID=1&sitecode=IQUS&pageno=1

Music Iraqi Music. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Iraq Assyrian Music. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian/Syriac_folk_music Evin Agassi. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evin_Agassi Claudia Hanna. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klodia_Hanna Ashur Bet Sargis. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashur_Bet_Sargis Evin Agassi. Assyrian Khoba. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnH2fTQ0TpU

Evin Agassi. Kikhweh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RQp6e0zkqc

Ashur Bet Sargis. Bet Nahrain Atrewa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYqTyegRcyA

Klodia. Bandam Awy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDP-9TBRfB4

David Simon. Assyrian Song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2vFE2QZErg&feature=youtu.be

News

Search: ‘Refugees‘. The New York Times, September-November 2014.

http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/refugees/since1851/allresults/1/allauthors/newest/

Search: ‘Refugees’. The Guradian, November 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/world/refugees