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Grim camps for Iraqis avoid the "pull factor" (Reuters)

Chickens perch near a girl sleeping inside a tent in a refugee camp in Sulaimaniya, 330 km (205 miles) northeast of Baghdad July 30, 2007. Refugee workers call it the 'pull factor' -- camps with conditions comfortable enough to attract people in a country where an average of 60,000 Iraqis a month are driven from their homes by sectarian violence. So the challenge for aid workers is to provide safe havens that do not invite permanence. (Sherko Raouf/Reuters)Reuters - Refugee workers call it the
"pull factor" — camps with conditions comfortable enough to
attract people in a country where an average of 60,000 Iraqis a
month are driven from their homes by sectarian violence.

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