Yazidis on the Margins of Humanity: Internally Displaced in Iraqi Kurdistan (Worlds in Crisis: Refugees, Asylum, and Forced Migration)

After the 2014 ISIS genocide, hundreds of thousands of Iraq's Yazidi minority were forced to flee their ancestral homeland in Sinjar.While global attention focuses on refugees crossing international borders, the Yazidis' experience represents a less visible yet more common face of displacement - those forced from their homes but confined within national boundaries as internally displaced persons (IDPs). Drawing on ethnographic research in an IDP camp in Iraqi Kurdistan, Yazidis on the Margins of Humanity examines how Yazidis navigate the lived contradictions of internal displacement: they are citizens of a state that failed to protect them, yet that very citizenship now prevents them from seeking safety elsewhere.Author Houman Oliaei shows how internal displacement creates a paradox of protection, where international institutions view IDPs as too much like citizens to warrant protection, while governments see them as too displaced to recognize them as full citizens.In this interstitial