Baghdad: Night after night, Mohammed al-Jabiry tossed and turned in his bed at a refugee centre in Finland, comparing life in Europe with life in Baghdad. After many sleepless nights, he decided to come home. "In Iraq, I can find a girl to marry," Jabiry, 23, reasoned. "And my mum is here". There were little things, too, that drove him to return, like the high price of cigarettes and the chillier weather. "In Europe, I was isolated", he said. "Life in Europe was not what we were expecting". Last year, beckoned by news reports of easy passage to Europe through Turkey, tens of thousands of Iraqis joined Syrians, Africans and Afghans in...
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