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The study aimed to identify the level of political alienation among university students, the nature of the attitude toward immigration they have, and the significance of differences depending on variables of gender, area of study and location of housing, and the nature of the relationship between political alienation and the attitude towards immigration. The study sample included 327 male and female students who were chosen at random from the colleges of Arts and Sciences at University of Salah-Alddin - Erbil. The study relied on two tools which are the measure of political alienation and the attitude towards migration. The tools were developed by the researchers. The data was processed using Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient and the t-test for one sample and two independent samples. The results showed that there is a high level of political alienation, and no significant differences in the political alienation that can be attributed to the variables of gender, area of study, and location of housing. It turns out that the university students' attitudes towards immigration were negative, and the results revealed an absence of significant differences in the attitude towards immigration depending on the variables of gender and area of study. While the results indicated a significant difference in the attitude of emigration is due to the variable of the location of housing, and for the benefit of students who live in the city center. (Published Abstract)