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*The main destinations for Iraqi immigration in the 2000s (decade) are the '''UK, Sweden, Germany, Canada, Australia and South America (i.e. Brazil)'''. | *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 diasporas", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diasporas#I, accessed 17 July 2021.</ref> | *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 diasporas", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diasporas#I, accessed 17 July 2021.</ref> | ||
*In 2007, the UN said that about 40% of '''Iraq's middle class''' was believed to have fled and that most had fled '''systematic persecution''' and had no desire to return. | |||
*Subsequently, the diaspora seemed to be returning, as security improved; the Iraqi government claimed that 46,000 refugees returned to their homes in October 2007 alone. | |||
*More than half of '''Iraqi Christians''' had fled the country since the 2003 US-led invasion. | |||
==Records of Iraqi Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Iraqi Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||