The Politics of Population Movements in Contemporary Iraq: A Research Agenda

Chatelard, Géraldine

doi:10.1142/9789814390576_0022

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“…In post-2003 Iraq, new waves of displacement added to a social texture that has historically witnessed the incidence of population movements as an instrument for the construction of the Iraqi state (see Chatelard, 2012;Human Rights Watch, 2004;Jogan, 2001;Romano, 2005). Amidst discrimination and a search for the 'original Iraqi', the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein consistently carried out acts of forced displacement in order to minimise the opposition to its rule and upheld his vision of Iraq.…”

Section: Becoming Displaced In the Midst Of A Contested Citizenshipmentioning

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Practices of exclusion, narratives of inclusion: Violence, population movements and identity politics in post-2014 northern Iraq

Costantini¹,

O’Driscoll

2019

Ethnicities

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This article examines the practices and narratives of inclusion and exclusion in Iraq in relation to ethnic and religious minorities displaced by the Islamic State and the resulting war. Examining the displacement in Iraq through the lens of citizenship, and utilising 29 in-depth qualitative interviews with internally displaced people (IDPs) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, this article argues that displacement has been accompanied by practices and narratives meant to include internally displaced people in a particularistic articulation of belonging rather than to ensure a substantive participation as Iraqi or Kurdistan Region of Iraq citizens. Rhetoric of citizenship in Iraq changes between civic and ethnosectarian belonging based on conflict dynamics and the competition for power, whilst remaining ethnosectarian in reality. Thus, internally displaced people and their citizenship have become entangled in wider ethnosectarian competition in Iraq, and narratives and practices of citizenship change to fit the objectives of these wider actors, mainly Baghdad and Erbil, rather than being based on inclusiveness and civic identity.

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Section: Becoming Displaced In the Midst Of A Contested Citizenshipmentioning

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Practices of exclusion, narratives of inclusion: Violence, population movements and identity politics in post-2014 northern Iraq

Costantini¹,

O’Driscoll

2019

Ethnicities

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“…Belonging to the old order, they were seen as obstacles by those whom Chatelard (2011) refers to as 'would-be state actors'. These aspired to control the emerging state and wished to shape its formation to their benefit.…”

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“…The modern Iraqi state in its many forms has been 'the main entity responsible for involuntary migration inside and outside the country' (Chatelard 2011). In this sense there is continuity before and since the invasion of 2003.…”

Section: Continuity and Sectarian Opportunitymentioning

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“…Direct intervention by US forces in 2004 produced major episodes of displacement, notably during battles at Falluja; subsequent mass displacement was, however, primarily an outcome of agendas pursued by would-be state actors. Mobilizing sectarian politics in their quest to acquire power, they directed violence 'against the confessional, ethnic and class composition of entire urban and rural areas, displacing populations inside and outside the country, and forcing others to be immobilised' (Chatelard 2011). Some secured powerful positions within the apparatus of state, becoming part of the architecture of the new Iraq; others were declared alien to the project of state-building, becoming objects of official hostility.…”

Section: Continuity and Sectarian Opportunitymentioning

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“…Repeated episodes of displacement have taken place over the past 150 years, related to imperial policies, colonial encounters and, in the mid-twentieth century, to struggles for national independence (Chatty 2010). In the case of Iraq they are evident from the first years of the British Mandate and have been a feature of modern Iraqi history (Chatelard 2011;Marfleet 2011). When a new order began taking shape after the invasion and occupation of 2003 a series of displacements began, eventually becoming a mass exodus.…”

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Displacement and statecraft in Iraq: Recent trends, older roots

Ali

2011

International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies

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This article discusses the relationship between state formation and refugees, linking statecraft -the 'art' of state building -and displacement in post-2003 Iraq. It uses the testimonies of displaced Iraqis now living in Syria to show how parties and militias in Iraq targeted specific groups, including religious minorities such as the Mandaeans. They created new forms of exclusion, forcing some communities to flee. In some cases, they compelled people to leave abruptly; in others, hostile forces gradually encroached upon the target groups. Some organizations had their origins in pre-2003 dynamics and were not the first in Iraq to use displacement as a means to implement a political design.

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“People Eat People”: The Influence of Socioeconomic Conditions on Experiences of Displacement in Jordan

Dardiry

2017

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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This article explores the ways in which refugee and host experiences of displacement in Jordan between 2010 and 2013 were articulated in a socioeconomic register that coincided with, but was also independent of, both state biopower and historical cross-border regionalisms. I argue that this register became salient due to a shared understanding of everyday life as characterized by what I term hunger, a state of depredation where “people eat people” to attain their own well-being. In pursuing this argument, the article has two goals: to show how Iraqis and Jordanians negotiated the complexities of living together in hunger by censuring individuals—locals and foreigners, rich and poor—who contributed to producing hunger rather than to alleviating it, and by consciously resisting the corrosive effects of hunger on social relations; and, more generally, to challenge universalizing understandings of refugee experiences according to which local tensions between refugees and hosts are derivative of a globalized antiforeigner discourse.

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The Politics of Population Movements in Contemporary Iraq: A Research Agenda

Cited by 7 publications

References 20 publications

Practices of exclusion, narratives of inclusion: Violence, population movements and identity politics in post-2014 northern Iraq

Practices of exclusion, narratives of inclusion: Violence, population movements and identity politics in post-2014 northern Iraq

Displacement and statecraft in Iraq: Recent trends, older roots

“People Eat People”: The Influence of Socioeconomic Conditions on Experiences of Displacement in Jordan

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