Abstract
[...]India" appears as a key part of performing and managing identity for Yezidi Kurds during this time of increased ISIS violence against their community and the rise in Islamophobia across the globe. Combined with the poem by Sumaya Muhamed, the articles in this special offer a reading of the heterogeneity of Kurdish diasporas that challenge ideas of equivalence. [...]going back to the meeting with Kuvan and Rekan, we see not only difference operating within the category of North Kurdistanis but across a wide swath of Kurdish diasporas. [...]we are tasked with producing scholarship to engage with the long, complicated, and contradictory histories of Kurdish diasporas in so many parts of the world. [...]it gives a much broader and necessary framework for thinking about migration that allows a sophisticated theorization of settler-colonialist regimes in West Asia/ "Middle East" as well as in North America.