IRAQIS WHO HAVE MOVED ABROAD APRIL 2020
Since 2019, DTM Iraq has been implementing migration monitoring activities as part of the Regional Evidence for Migration Analysis and Policy (REMAP) project, which aims to strengthen evidence-based formulation and implementation of humanitarian and development policy and programming on migration and forced displacement in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq and Pakistan.
As a part of the REMAP project, DTM collected information on the numbers and locations of mobile population groups, in the current case Iraqis who have moved abroad. This document provides an overview of locations – those areas at the sub-district level which host at least five IDP and/or returnee households – in which Iraqis have departed for another country in the year prior to the assessment, with the intention to emigrate. The data presented in this factsheet is taken from the Integrated Location Assessment (ILA) – Round IV (completed from 1 May to 30 June 2019). ILA IV provides an in-depth look into both displacement and return movements in Iraq, including the demographics of displaced and returnee populations, their current living conditions, movement intentions, vulnerabilities and the state of social cohesion in the locations in which they currently live.
Data collection for ILA IV was conducted through a network of key informants across 3,645 locations hosting either IDPs or returnees (or both). These key informants were asked about instances of Iraqis who have emigrated, with the option of providing the number of these persons.
• Key informants reported that some Iraqis had left for a foreign country in 17% of assessed locations, namely 536 out of the 3,645 locations.
17% • Departures were reported in 14 of the 18 assessed governorates. The three governorates with OF LOCATIONS REPORTED the highest proportion of locations reporting that some Iraqis had emigrated were Sulaymaniyah IRAQIS HAVING DEPARTED (23%, 124 locations), Baghdad (22%, 112 locations) and Dahuk (13%, 72 locations). FOR ANOTHER COUNTRY • 44% of the locations with some departures for abroad reported a total of 3, 470 Iraqis having departed. Two of the three locations reporting the highest figures were located in Sulaymaniyah Governorate: Takia in Chamchamal District and Markaz Sulaymaniyah in Sulaymaniyah District, Percentage of Iraqis having left their location for another country by governorate reporting 150 and 125 Iraqis having emigrated, respectively. Markaz Tikrit in Tikrit District in Salah al-Din Governorate reported that 132 Iraqis had emigrated.
Sulaimaniyah 23% Zakho Amedi Dahuk Mergasur Sumel Dahuk Baghdad 22% Soran Akre Telafar Al-Shikhan Tilkaif Choman . Shaqlawa
Dahuk 13% Sinjar Al-Hamdaniya Rania Pshdar Mosul Erbil Ninewa Erbil Koisnjaq Dokan Ninewa 11% Sharbazher Makhmur Penjwin Al-Ba'aj Dabes Kirkuk Sulaymaniyah Hatra Al-Shirqat Sulaymaniya Erbil 9% Al-Hawiga Kirkuk Daquq Darbandikhan Chamchamal Halabja
Baiji Kalar Salah al-Din Tooz 6% Ra'ua Tikrit Kifri Haditha Salah Al-Din Kerbala 4% Khanaqin Al-Ka'im Samarra Al-Daur Al-Thethar Al-Khalis Ana Balad Diyala Al-Muqdadiya Thi-Qar 4% Heet Al-Fares TarmiaBa'quba Baladrooz KadhimiaAl Resafa Ramadi Basrah Abu Ghraib 4% Falluja Baghdad MahmoudiyaMada'in Anbar Al-Azezia Badra Al-Musayab Al-Suwaira Kirkuk 3% Kerbala Al-Mahawil Al-Rutba Wassit Ain Al-Tamur Kerbala Babylon Kut Ali Al-Gharbi Al-HindiyaHillaHashimiya Al-Na'maniya Diyala 1% Al-Hai Kufa Diwaniya Afaq Amara Al-Manathera Al-Shamiya Qadissiya Missan Al-Rifa'i Wassit 1% Al-Kahla Hamza Al-Rumaitha Al-Maimouna Qal'at Saleh Al-Shatra Al-Mejar Al-Kabir Anbar <1% Al-SamawaAl-Khidhir Thi-Qar Najaf Najaf Al-Midaina Nassriya Al-Qurna Suq Al-ShoyokhAl-Chibayish Babylon Shatt Al-Arab <1% Basrah Number of locations reporting Basrah Abu Al-Khaseeb Iraqis emigrated by district Al-Zubair Muthanna Fao Al-Salman 1 - 10 11 - 23 24 - 64
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