The Domiz refugee camp just outside of Duhok, in Iraqi Kurdistan, was opened in April, 2012. It was initially designed for 25,000 people, but the current population is about 35,000. Like all large refugee camps, it operates as a kind of city, with countless shops, restaurants, schools, taxis, and various services. Compared to refugee camps worldwide, Domiz has quite good conditions. The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), gives all legal asylum seekers work permits, an extremely rare practice. There are over 200,000 Syrian refugees in Kurdistan, an autonomous region of Iraq, and almost all of them are Kurdish. The Kurdish region of Syria has been relatively, though not wholly, untouched by fighting, but is economically devastated. Domiz is the largest and best equipped of 13 camps in Kurdistan.
Nick Ashdown - Photographer 
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