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==Immigration into Iraq== | ==Immigration into Iraq== | ||
==Emigration From Iraq== | ==Emigration From Iraq== | ||
*Refugees from '''Iraq''' have increased in number since the US-led invasion into Iraq in March 2003. | |||
*As of November 4, 2006, the UNHCR estimated that 1.8 million Iraqis had been displaced to neighboring countries, with nearly 100,000 Iraqis fleeing to '''Syria and Jordan''' each month. | |||
*There are over 200,000 Iraqi refugees said to reside in '''Egypt''' and 100,000 more in the '''Persian Gulf states'''. | |||
*The main destinations for Iraqi immigration in the 2000s (decade) are the '''UK, Sweden, Germany, Canada, Australia and South America (i.e. Brazil)'''. *However, there is a large Iraqi community in the '''United States''' and some of the community in the US arrived as early as the 1900s-10s.<ref>"List of diaspora", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diasporas#I, accessed 17 July 2021.</ref> | |||
==Records of Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||
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