10.000 Refugees from Iraq

A report on joint resettlement in the EU

This study from 2010 was published in light of the challenges preventing Iraqi refugees from returning to Iraq and the obstacles to local integration in host countries like Jordan and Syria. The International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) wanted to find out how far EU Member States have come to meet the pledge of resettling up to 10 000 refugees from Iraq, as expressed in the joint EU call of November 2008, a document that can be considered a first experience of joint resettlement in the European Union.