Open AccessInternational Refugee Law and the Arab World
Author(s) -
Ayaki Ito
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.151
Subject(s) - refugee , law , front (military) , shot (pellet) , criminology , political science , stigma (botany) , history , ancient history , gender studies , psychology , sociology , geography , psychiatry , chemistry , organic chemistry , meteorology
Amira is a 34-year old Iraqi woman. In 2005 a group of militants burst into her house in the Dora area of Baghdad. They told her husband to leave the house within 24 hours for sectarian reasons. He refused and was shot dead on the spot. One of the militants raped Amira in front of her two children. Afraid and ashamed, she fled Iraq with her children to a country in the region. She is still afraid in the country of asylum because many men are asking why she is alone and some are making unwanted advances. She is also afraid of being arrested because she entered the country illegally. She is afraid to return to Iraq because of her experience and the stigma associated with it.