Sep. 17, 2021

New arrivals spark nativist backlash in Iraq’s Karbala

Iraq/Society

The general discourse surrounding migration has thus far been focused on the global refugee crisis, but an equally serious—if not larger—crisis is unfolding in the refugee-producing nations themselves. As major cities in war-torn nations stabilize and prosper faster than rural areas, beleaguered rural populations flee to urban centers, further burdening fragile cities and threatening the very stability that attracts migration...

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Abbas Al-Maliki
Abbas Al-Maliki
Abbas Al-Maliki
Abbas Al-Maliki is an Iraqi writer and political analyst. He holds a BA in Law from ... Full Bio
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فارسیPersian
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عربيArabic