Going Home? Prospects and Pitfalls for Large-Scale Return of Iraqis
Ferris, Elizabeth
Brookings Institution, Presentation at the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Annual Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 28 - 2 July, 2009, 15p
"Recently discussion has turned to the prospects for the large-scale return of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) to Iraq. More than 4 million Iraqis have been displaced, either internally or externally. And while the Iraqi and US governments, policymakers in the region, and humanitarian actors assume that most will return to Iraq in the near future, Elizabeth Ferris points out that experience with other displacement crises indicates that return will be neither automatic nor straightforward."
Elizabeth Ferris is senior fellow and co-director of the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement.
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http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2009/0702_iraqi_displacement_ferris/0702_iraqi_displacement_ferris.pdf
H9/04-09 posted July 17, 2009
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