A kolbar (Persian: کولبر) or kolber (Kurdish: کۆڵبەر) or cross-border labor[1] is a worker who is employed to carry goods on his/her back across the borders of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey legally or illegally.[2] Most kolbars live in Iranian Kurdistan, where the Kurdish provinces are among the poorest in the country. Kolbars also live in Turkish Kurdistan and to a lesser extent Iraqi Kurdistan. Since kolbar work is mostly considered illegal, kolbar workers have no insurance, retirement plans and unions. Among the kolbars are highly educated young people, who have no job because of high unemployment in Kurdish provinces.[3] According to Iranian statistics, only in the Kurdistan Province more than twenty thousand people depend on being a kolbar for sustenance.[4] The phenomenon of kolbari is tied to the de-development of the Kurdistan region, Iran.[1]
^ abSoleimani, Kamal; Mohammadpour, Ahmad (2020). "Life and labor on the internal colonial edge: Political economy of kolberi in Rojhelat". The British Journal of Sociology. 71 (4): 741–760. doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12745. ISSN 1468-4446. PMID 32154583.
^Kurdistan human Rights Network: Who are Kolbars?
^Fars News: A kolbar that has a MSc degree (in Persian)
^Fars News:The situation of kolbars vaguer than ever
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