Over a million Kurdish-Yezidi refugees are dispersed across European cities and towns. However
they are neither recognized as a distinct community of stateless immigrants nor as a distinct
European ethnic or religious minority. They are frequently utilized as data sources without
having a voice to address their challenges. This oral testimony project moving beyond but
contributing to conventional academic research provides these communities with a space to
tackle multiple questions in their own languages and with their own voices. The book seeks to
answer what drives their departures from their home countries how they escape what shapes
their lives in receiving cities and finally how homeland affairs influence their lives in new
environments. By addressing all these themes this book presents refugee-centric knowledge by
and with refugees as objects and subjects of their narratives and transcends neoliberal
humanitarian state-centric and colonial hegemonic epistemes that limit refugees' epistemic
capabilities and viewpoints.
