ABSTRACT This paper tackles the formation of identity of a group of first generation Iraqi women in the diaspora, who went to the northern city of Kingston upon Hull in England, after 2003. The paper, therefore, focuses on three identity categories, viz. religious, cultural, and linguistic to see how the diaspora women negotiate the terms of their subject position as a first generation diaspora group in the United Kingdom, UK. The researcher used ethnography and interviewing in the study. Fifteen Iraqi women were interviewed in order to understand what ‘home’ means to them. The paper also examined the Iraqi women’s understanding of ‘citizenship’ and the role social media sites had played in creating virtual spaces for them, especially by feeding into their personal and cultural identities in the diaspora. The research is situated within the sphere of feminist political philosophy of diaspora in connection with the women’s rights to have identities different from the dominant culture in their host countries. Moreover, the researcher reviews three hypotheses bearing on intercultural relations: the multiculturalism hypothesis, the integration hypothesis, and the contact hypothesis. (Berry, John W. 2013. “Intercultural Relations in Plural Societies: Research Derived from Multiculturalism Policy.” Acta De Investtigacion Psicologica 2 (3), 1122–1135) By testing the three intercultural hypotheses against the results of the conducted research, the study concludes that the Iraqi diaspora community is not a homogenous entity as it includes minorities within the minority. Therefore, there needs to be a system that respects diversity, hence the researcher supports the continuation of multiculturalism policy in hope of developing better intercultural relations.

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在最后的天空之后，鸟儿该往哪里飞？在英国的伊拉克侨民妇女的形象和声音

摘要 本文探讨了 2003 年后前往英格兰赫尔河畔金斯顿北部城市的散居伊拉克第一代妇女的身份形成问题。因此，本文重点关注三个身份类别，即。宗教、文化和语言，以了解散居妇女如何协商其作为英国第一代散居群体的主体地位的条款。研究人员在研究中使用了民族志和访谈。15 名伊拉克妇女接受了采访，以了解“家”对她们的意义。该论文还研究了伊拉克妇女对“公民身份”的理解以及社交媒体网站在为她们创造虚拟空间方面所发挥的作用，特别是通过融入他们在散居国外的个人和文化身份。该研究位于侨民女权主义政治哲学的范围内，与妇女在东道国拥有不同于主流文化的身份的权利有关。此外，研究人员回顾了与跨文化关系有关的三个假设：多元文化假设、整合假设和接触假设。（Berry, John W. 2013。“多元社会中的跨文化关系：源自多元文化主义政策的研究。”Acta De Investtigacion Psicologica 2 (3), 1122–1135）通过对照所进行的研究结果测试三个跨文化假设，研究得出的结论是，伊拉克侨民社区不是一个同质的实体，因为它包括少数群体中的少数群体。因此，需要有一个尊重多样性的系统，