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Draft abstract -BISA 2024 Annual Conference
Forced Migration of Iraqi Kurds to the UK: Pre Arrival experiences and Post Arrival Slow Violence
My research will aim to investigate the forced migration of Kurds from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to the UK. I will be looking into the reason why people have left the KRG since the 2014 Daesh war in Iraq and chose to come to the UK as their preferred destination. For my fieldwork, I will conduct in-depth interviews with Kurds asylum seekers’ to investigate their pre-arrival experiences and aspirations. Then, I intend to explore their post arrival difficulties and challenges. Focusing on the UK’s asylum system and the government’s responses to the rise in the Channel crossings, I aim to interview professionals, policy makers and stakeholders to explore, assess and contest their responses to policies and working with or on subjects relevant to asylum seekers and refugees. I am keen to research the colonial legacies that impact upon decision making when Iraqi Kurds choose a country to migrate to. I will be examining the impact of the hostile environment representations through focusing on deterrence policies and slow violence of reception in the UK. Then, through the data I gather, I will explore the consequences of the government’s policies have on the experiences of asylum seekers and stakeholders.
