16 September 2019

Regional Focus: MENA, incl. Syria

Blog posts &media:

Changing the Migration Horizon from North Africa to Europe (ISS Today, Aug. 2019) [text]

Ethiopians Abused on Gulf Migration Route (Human Rights Watch, Aug. 2019) [text]
- "A combination of factors...have driven hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians to migrate over the past decade, traveling by boat over the Red Sea and then by land through Yemen to Saudi Arabia. "

International Politics of Syrian Refugee Return: The Case of Lebanon (Middle East Institute, Aug. 2019) [text]
- Part of "Refugees Adrift? Responses to Crises in the MENA and Asia" blog series.

Lebanon: Authorities Must Immediately Halt Deportation of Syrian Refugees (Amnesty International, Aug. 2019) [text]

Record Numbers of Refugees and Migrants Arrive in Yemen Amidst Intensifying and Complicated War (Mixed Migration Centre, Aug. 2019) [text]

*"Syrian Deportations Leave Behind Hardship, Fear in Lebanon," The New Humanitarian, 17 Sept. 2019 [text]

The U.N. Agency for Palestinian Refugees Faces Another Crisis (WP's Monkey Cage, Aug. 2019) [text]

U.S.-Turkey “Safe Zone” Likely to Add Fuel to Syria Conflict (Just Security Blog, Aug. 2019) [text]
- See also related Reuters article.

What We Feared Would Happen to Returning Syrian Refugees Has Come to Pass (CMS Dispatches from the Global Crisis in Refugee Protection Blog, Aug. 2019) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

At Least 98,000 Forcibly Disappeared Persons in Syria Since March 2011 (Syrian Network for Human Rights, Aug. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Citizens of Somewhere: A Case Study of Refugees in Towns - Amman, Jordan (Feinstein International Center, Aug. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Cultivating Refuge: The Role of Urban Agriculture amongst Refugees and Forced Migrants in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq," International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics, vol. 14, no. 2 (2019) [full-text via ReliefWeb]

"Language Learning Tool for Refugees: Identifying the Language Learning Needs of Syrian Refugees Through Participatory Design," Languages, vol. 4, no. 3 (Sept. 2019) [open access]
- Compares Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Germany.

Losing Their Last Refuge: Inside Idlib’s Humanitarian Nightmare (Refugees International, Sept. 2019) [text]

Paperless People of Post-conflict Iraq: Denied Rights, Barred from Basic Services and Excluded from Reconstruction Efforts (Norwegian Refugee Council et al., Sept. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Qualitative Research on Social Tensions, Lebanon, Round 1, Year 1 (UNDP, Sept. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Rebuilding Syria: The Middle East's Next Power Game? (Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, Sept. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

*Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/42/51 (UN Human Rights Council, Aug. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related OHCHR news story.

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Related post:
Regional Focus: MENA, incl. Syria (8 Aug. 2019)

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