International Journal of Human Mobility

Abstract

While we are preparing for our second issue, we have started to witness new cases of forced and irregular migration, which have emerged as a result of many factors such as war, invasion and military withdrawal, which unfortunately surround the whole world. In addition, it is worried us that countries did not show the necessary reactions to this forced human mobility due to local or national interests. Trying to continue the double standard policies of Western countries and their organizations established for security purposes has also been a source of rebellion for us.
The most important migration-based people movement we experienced last year was the policy of withdrawing American troops first from Syria and then Afghanistan, implemented by President Biden under the Democrats' rule in the United States. In August 2021, we witnessed Afghan soldiers, especially accused of collaborating with the United States, flocking from Turkey's ripped borders through Iran out of fear of the Taliban. At first, we could not understand who these many male immigrants were, dressed in uniforms, in regular army organization, and whose numbers were not officially announced. Afterwards, we started to watch where they resided only as much as it was partially reflected in the media. As the International Journal of Human Mobility, we are content to state that we are eager to publish researches in this field, as there has not been any systematic research on these forced immigrants, which is very different from the Afghan immigrant identity in the form of traditional shepherds.