Talk:Iraqi diaspora

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This article was nominated for deletion recently. The result of the discussion was keep.

[edit] Early comments

If this article is not deleted--god willing ;) -- perhaps something should also be written about the departure of Iraqi Jews earlier in this century, because that still consists of a diaspora of sorts, and also Christians who are unfortunately being pushed out of the country during the current war. And furthermore some kind of statistics for Iraqi expatriates in various other countries could probably be found. Dan Carkner 04:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

There has also been coverage of a non-ethnically based Iraqi diaspora due to the current war, that of middle-class Iraqis who have gone to Jordan, Syria, and other countries as a result of the violence. For instance [1] -Fsotrain⁰⁹ 20:35, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I have expanded this article to include a bit more information on the Jews and Assyrians that have left Iraq and to add a bit more meat to the article in general. It's still a pretty slim article. I would suggest that more information needs to be found about the pre-American invasion diaspora. How many Iraqis were true political refugees and how many were economic migrants, and to where did they go, specifically? Also, it would be useful to know if foreign-based Kurds consider themselves "Iraqi" in any way.Zavtrakat 04:50, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

It's good work you're doing. I wish I could remember the name and issue of the Christian magazine I was reading in Toronto last year that had a long article about the crisis Christians(Assyrians) are facing in Iraq in the last few years. Dan Carkner 16:51, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I would like to add my support to the preservation of mention of the exodus of Iraqi Jews if this article is merged with Refugees of Iraq.

Of course, this article should have recognition too of the exodus of Christians and Chaldeans. Overall, assuming the aforementioned caveats, I would give my assent to the mergers. Dogru144 00:27, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Usage

• Asia Times Online; March 9, 2002; Make war, not politics. "European diplomats and the Iraqi diaspora in Europe deplore in private the limitations of Resolution 986 - a basket of extremely mean and intolerant ..." [2]
• New York Times; April 17, 2003 Iraqi's Road Home, by Way of the Web. "The Internet generally and Iraq.net specifically provided a way to do that -- first by simply gathering people scattered by the Iraqi diaspora, then by allowing the virtual discourse to unfold." [3]
• US News and World Report; April 28, 2003; Beyond Babylon. "They came from nearby cities and towns, from the distant lands of the Iraqi diaspora to the 4,000-year-old Ziggurat of Ur, one of the Arab world's most famous archaeological ruins." [4]
• National Public Radio; June 28, 2003; Interview with Faisal Istrabadi; "There is a sense that all of us who have lived in the Iraqi diaspora have a void in our lives ..." [5]
• New York Times; August 18, 2003; A Shiite Burial Ground Awaits Foreign Faithful. "The cemetery workers look forward to calmer days, when the faithful no longer fear joining the deceased by venturing onto Iraq's brigand-infested roads. In the cemetery's halcyon days, bodies arrived daily from a broad swath of territory from Lebanon to India and from the Iraqi diaspora in the world beyond." [6]

--Doc^g 12:32, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merges

Following the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iraqi Armenian, I've merged content from a number of Iraqi-(insert name of country here) forks. Content was only merged from articles that dealt only with the diaspora; forks which were more expansive were left alone.

Articles which have been merged here:

Iraqis in Algeria Iraqis in Austria Iraqis in Bulgaria Iraqis in Denmark Iraqis in Egypt Iraqis in Finland Iraqi French Iraqis in Germany

Iraqis in Hungary Iraqis in Ireland Iraqis in Italy Iraqis in Kuwait Iraqis in Libya Iraqis in Romania Iraqis in Russia Iraqis in Spain

Iraqis in Switzerland Iraqis in Syria Iraqis in Turkey Iraqis in United Arab Emirates Iraqis in Yemen

Articles which were left alone:

Iraqi Australian Arab Brazilian Iraqi Canadian Iraqis in Greece Iraqis in Iran

Iraqi Jews Iraqis in Lebanon Iraqis in the Netherlands Iraqis in New Zealand Iraqis in Sweden

Iraqi Norwegian Iraqis in Saudi Arabia British Iraqi Iraqi American

If you check the edit history, you'll notice that it's an ugly, ugly mess - that's what happens when 23 articles are merged together, since the GFDL requires article merges to preserve edit histories. But everything should still be in there, so if you need something but can't find it, keep looking.

The content is by no means complete, by the way. Since the entire process took so long, I didn't take the time to check individual citations. Some statements may be contradictory or loaded, so someone should do a check for that as well. Also, it may work better to condense this material into a table rather than having so many different headers.

Finally, note that there are not entries in this article for the countries which I didn't merge - data from those still needs to be added.

If there are any questions about what I've done here, just ask - the long series of merges was kind of mind-numbing, so I may have left something out from this explanation. Tijuana Brass (talk) 03:10, 23 December 2007 (UTC)