Abstract
This chapter contains a series of individual and family migration histories that represent common experiences of the violent removal of belonging after the Iraq War, followed by exile and survival in surrounding countries, and finally the momentous decision points about asylum seeking and resettlement in countries outside the Middle East. While each of these individuals’ stories is unique, they illustrate commonalities of the Iraqi refugee experience. The chapter describes how it was only after intense lobbying by refugee advocates, Iraq War veterans, and organizations such as LIST: The Project, that the resettlement door was opened via the Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act. Thus, the first significant waves of Iraqi refugees began to arrive in the US in 2008. A total of 124,159 Iraqi refugees would be resettled in the US between 2008 and 2015. Iraq would be the number-one refugee sending country to the US for four of the next seven years.
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