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2022 - Volume 5 - Number 2

Kurdish Migration Waves to Rojava (Northern Syria)

Vladimir Stefanov Chukov * vladimir_chukov@abv.bg * ORCID: 0000-0002-4544-3708
University of Ruse “Angel Kanchev”, Faculty of Business and Management, European Studies Department, Ruse, BULGARIA

Open Journal for Studies in History, 2022, 5(2), 11-20 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsh.0502.01011c
Received: 15 October 2022 ▪ Revised: 10 December 2022 ▪ Published Online: 21 December 2022

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
This study aims to present the Kurds and the Kurdish migration waves to Rojava (Northern Syria). The accumulation of huge Kurdish masses on the territory of today's Syria is the result of millennial waves of migration caused by the turbulent events in the Middle East. The article analyzes: The Kurdish settlements in Syria; The French colonial authorities; The French colonial policy in the Middle East; The migration flow to Syria. The authors of the in-depth study of modern Syrian Kurdistan, The Question of Syrian Kurdistan – Reality, History, Mythologisation, argue that in the twentieth century there were two main waves of migration to northern Syria. One is expansionist and the other is restrictive. They form the current profile of the Kurdish community in Syria.

KEY WORDS: Syria, Kurdish refugees, Kurdish migration waves, Rojava.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Vladimir Stefanov Chukov (PhD), University of Ruse “Angel Kanchev”, Faculty of Business and Management, European Studies Department, Ruse, BULGARIA. E-mail: vladimir_chukov@abv.bg.

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