Regional Focus: MENA

Event & opportunity:

The Arab Spring and Forced Migration: A Winter That Waits for an End, Cairo, 28 April 2014 [info]
- CMRS lecture.

CFP: Journal of Internal Displacement [info]
- Articles solicited for special issue on "Understanding Israeli Practices of Forced Displacement and Settler Colonialism in the Occupied Palestinian Territories." Note: Deadline has been *extended* to 1 May 2014.

Publications:

Displacement in the Middle East and North Africa: Between an Arab Winter and the Arab Spring, Working Paper, no. 17 (American University of Beirut, Aug. 2013) [text]

[EU Mobility Partnerships with Morocco and Tunisia] (EMHRN, 2014)
- Here is an analysis of the partnership with Morocco, signed 3 June 2013, and a reaction to the more recently agreed to partnership with Tunisia (signed 3 March 2014).

(Mis)understanding the "Right of Return" (PRRN Blog, March 2014) [text]

Morocco: Setting the Stage for Becoming a Migration Transition Country? (Migration Information Source, March 2014) [text]

Natural Disasters in the Middle East and North Africa: A Regional Overview (World Bank, Jan. 2014) [text via ReliefWeb]

Saudis' Mass Expulsions Putting Somalis in Danger (Human Rights Watch, March 2014) [text]

Spain/Morocco: Protect Migrants, Asylum Seekers (Human Rights Watch, March 2014) [text]

Blog:

Orient en Migration [access]
- Recent posts focus on the situation of African asylum-seekers in Israel.

Related post:
- Regional Focus: MENA (11 March 2014)

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