Regional Focus: MENA, incl. Syria

Blog posts & press:

Interview: Libya's Chaos Explained (Human Rights Watch, March 2020) [text]

"Nowhere to Go: Mosul Residents in Limbo as Camps Close," The New Humanitarian, 11 March 2020 [text]

Yemen Sees Fresh Displacement after Five Years of Conflict (UNHCR, March 2020) [text]

Reports:

Living and Working in the Midst of Conflict: The Status of Long-term Migrants in Libya (IOM, April 2020) [text]

Managing Return in Anbar: Community Responses to the Return of IDPs with Perceived Affiliation (IOM, March 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Multidimensional Poverty Assessment of Internally Displaced Persons in Iraq, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 9203 (World Bank, April 2020) [text]

Not Wanted Anywhere: Conflict-Affected Communities at Growing Risk in Iraq (Protection Cluster, March 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Protection Landscapes in Diyala and Kirkuk, Iraq (Oxfam, March 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Re-displaced: An Exploration of Displacement after Attempted Return in Iraq, Return Index Thematic Series Briefing, no. 3 (IOM, Feb. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Syria: Internally Displaced Persons, Returnees and Internal Mobility (European Asylum Support Office, April 2020) [text]

Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Changing Attitudes and Fortunes, SWP Comment, no. 5 (German Inst. for International & Security Affairs, Feb. 2020) [text]

The Torture Factory: Report on Human Rights Violations Against Migrants and Refugees in Libya (2014-2020) (Medici per i Diritti Umani, March 2020) [text]
- See also related InfoMigrants post.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"The Fragility in the Land of Refugees: Jordan and Irrepressible Phenomenon of Refugee Camps," Journal of International Studies, vol. 13, no. 1 (2020) [open access]

"The International Law and Politics of Water Access: Experiences of Displacement, Statelessness, and Armed Conflict," Water, vol. 12, no. 2 (Jan. 2020) [open access]
- Focuses on the Middle East.

"Sampling for Representative Surveys of Displaced Populations," Chapter in Data Collection in Fragile States: Innovations from Africa and Beyond (Springer, Oct. 2019) [open access]
- Focuses on Syrian refugees and host communities in Jordan, Lebanon and the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq.

"The Special Issue 'Forced Migration and Refugeedom in the Modern Middle East': Towards Connected Histories of Refugeedom in the Middle East," Journal of Migration History, vol. 6, no. 1 (2020) [open access]
- Introduction to the special issue. Two other articles are also open access.

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Syria (23 March 2020)
- Regional Focus: MENA (3 March 2020)