Maktoumeen and ajanib are intermixed with Syrian Kurdish citizens across Dohuk Syrian refugee populations Maktoumeen and ajanib are spread evenly across the surveyed locations in Dohuk and intermixed with the Syrian citizen population. In focus group discussions, maktoumeen, ajanib and Syrian citizen Kurds all confirmed that the Syrian Kurdish refugee population is cohesive and the communities are not segregated. Photo caption: A stateless man in Dohuk governorate in KRI shows the informal identification documents he has from Syria on his phone. Photo: Caroline Zullo/NRC Ahmed, a maktoum Syrian Kurd from Qamishli, fled to KRI in 2013 with his wife and four children. “Back in Syria, we couldn’t travel anywhere and everyone else in our community was very poor. We couldn’t get jobs with the government and we couldn’t go to university. We really had no money for anything. Even when you get married, you can’t get a marriage certificate.” “We had no rights there and I always thought about the fact that my children would face the same issues. When we came to Dohuk, we were surprised that there were not more challenges to obtain residency. But things are still not perfect.” “We are still living in camps and our children can’t properly attend school... We also don’t have many opportunities for jobs, but it is the same for Syrian citizens here too. We just want to get an ID for any country for the future of our children.” Findings 10 13