Regional Focus: MENA

Event:

Book launch: Palestinian Refugees in International Law, Oxford, 7 February 2020 [info]

Blog posts & press:

*"Acting Head of U.N. Palestinian Agency Says 'Difficult' Year Ahead, Amid Funding Cuts and Israeli Pressure," Thomson Reuters Foundation News, 16 Jan. 2020 [text]

The Berlin Conference on Libya, 19 Jan. 2020 [text]
- Follow link for conference conclusions. See also related InfoMigrants article.

Immense Support for the Renewal of the UNRWA Mandate at the UN General Assembly (UNRWA, Dec. 2019) [text]
- See also related Guardian article.

Making Misery Pay: Libya Militias Take EU Funds for Migrants (Pulitzer Center, Dec. 2019) [text]

Refugees Trapped in Libya: Nowhere to Go but the Sea (MSF, Jan. 2020) [text]

Tacit Complicity of Non-Protection in the Maghreb: “As long as my neighbor does not protect refugees, I'll do the same” (RefLaw Blog, Jan. 2020) [text]

"UN Tells Migrants to Leave Libya Transit Centre as $6m Project Flounders," The New Humanitarian, 10 Dec. 2019 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Access to Durable Solutions among IDPs in Iraq: Experiences Applying to Compensation (IOM, Jan. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Framing Migration in the Southern Mediterranean: How Do Civil Society Actors Evaluate EU Migration Policies? The Case of Tunisia," Comparative Migration Studies, 8:2 (Jan. 2020) [open access]

"Legal Status of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Iraq and Kurdistan Region of Iraq," Scientific Journal of Cihan University – Slemani, vol. 3, no. 2 (Dec. 2019) [full-text via ResearchGate]

Libya: Migrant Vulnerability and Humanitarian Needs Assessment (IOM, Dec. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related Mixed Migration Centre infographic.

Morocco: Country Portfolio Evaluation (2016-2019) (UNHCR, Dec. 2019) [text]

Ras Al Ara: Ethiopian Asylum Seekers’ Gateway to Hell (Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor &SAM for Human Rights and Liberties, Jan. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Yemen. Text of report is in Arabic.

"Refugees, Camps and the City: Interrogating the Thresholds of the Modern Nation-State," Khamasin: Journal of the Department of Political Science (Fall 2019) [full-text]
- Focuses on Palestinian refugee camps. Scroll to p. 5.

When Affordability Matters: The Political Economy and Economic Decision Making of Iraqi IDPs (IOM, Dec. 2019) [text]

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Related post:
- Regional Focus: MENA, incl. Syria (5 Dec. 2019)

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