Imagine packing everything you own into one little suitcase and never having a home. Well this is the experience for Rozina. She was born in Iran after the Islamic revolution in 1979. Almost all aspects of life were changed, especially for women. Rozina is a Persian name and the Iranian government disapproved of any name […]
Refugees
Stories of the new ‘forgotten generation’ in South Sudan
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after a long and bloody civil war. Only two years after that South Sudan fell into another long and bloody civil war that started in 2013. In 2016 it was estimated that 50,000 people had been killed and 1.6 million displaced. In 2017 the number of displaced […]
Making Sense of Meskhetian Turk Migrations
You can’t undo a deportation. Jonathan Shapiro For my last three blog posts, I have decided to look at the history of Meskhetian Turks from their deportation in 1944 to the modern day. In this blog post, I am going to do my best to familiarize the reader with the Meskhetian Turks and how forced […]
Development of Afghan Migration to Iran
For hundreds of years, Afghans have migrated to Iran in order to improve their livelihoods. In the 20th century, the first major wave of Afghan migration to Iran came with the monumental upswing of the Iranian oil industry. Through recruitment by the Iranian government, thousands of Afghan laborers came to Iran.3 The workers enjoyed better […]
Migration as opportunity
Marianne Kamp Armenia has not been blessed with either prosperity or population growth since it became an independent country with the collapse of the USSR in 1991. This graph shows that at the beginning of independence, Armenia’s population was about 3.5 million, and as of 2020, it is 2.6 million. Many of these migrants have […]