Migration Reshapes Iraq

The refugee problem in Iraq has received increased public attention (if not governmental action) in recent weeks.  Not surprisingly, the war there has caused mass movements of people.  The N.Y. Times reports that, while some people have fled Iraq, “[a] vast internal migration is radically reshaping Iraq’s ethnic and sectarian landscape, according to new data collected by thousands of relief workers, but displacement in the most populous and mixed areas is surprisingly complex, suggesting that partitioning the country into semiautonomous Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish enclaves would not be easy.”

KJ