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The chapter presents the in-depth interviews, which were conducted with Kurdish repatriates in the cities of Sulaymaniyah and Erbil in Kurdistan (Iraq). Many children of first-immigrant generations return to the origin homeland for various reasons, but one particular reason is to connect to the homeland and “fill a gap.” Their experiences in the homeland are anything but simple; they face many moments when they feel like foreigners. While they express a belonging to the homeland, they are also critically aware of the differences that exist between the local population and themselves. Some return back to their homes in Europe, or beyond, while others have found ways to live within both their homelands (settlement country and origin country), in order to manage their hybrid lives.
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Mahmod, J. (2016). “My Kurdistan Chapter”: Kurdish Repatriation. In: Kurdish Diaspora Online. The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51347-2_7
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