Iraqi Returnees from Syria Following the 2011 Syria Crisis

This study assessed the living conditions of a particular group of Iraqis: those who in the early years of this millennium had fled violence and persecution in Iraq to Syria and later, since 2011, returned to Iraq, seeking refuge from the civil conflict in Syria that erupted after the Arab Spring.

IOM conducted field research for this study in May and June 2014. A total of 1,309 returnee households were interviewed in three larger cluster regions of Central Iraq, Southern Iraq and the KRI. Besides this field survey, qualitative data was gathered in a small number of focus groups conducted in the three regions including Anbar Governorate.