07 August 2020

Regional Focus: MENA, incl. Syria

Blog posts & press:

*Deprioritised in the Health Response: Fragility of Refugees in the Middle East and North Africa Region during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Identities Blog Series, July 2020) [text]

*How COVID-19 is Affecting Egypt’s Migrants and Refugees (OECD Development Matters Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

Internal Displacement in Yemen Exceeds 100,000 in 2020 with COVID-19 an Emerging New Cause (IOM, July 2020) [text]

"No Papers, No Rights: Understanding Syria’s Civil Documentation Crisis," The New Humanitarian,
30 July 2020 [text]
- "First of a three-part series on how missing paperwork impacts millions of Syrians." Follow link to access the two other articles.

"Refugees in Lebanon Offer Their Homes, Blood to Beirut Explosion Victims," Newsweek, 5 Aug. 2020 [text]

"What Happens to Migrants Forcibly Returned to Libya?," The New Humanitarian, 5 Aug. 2020 [text]

"What the Beirut Blast Could Mean for a Battered Lebanon," The New Humanitarian, 5 Aug. 2020 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

‘On this journey, no one cares if you live or die’: Abuse, Protection, and Justice Along Routes Between East and West Africa and Africa’s Mediterranean Coast (UNHCR & Mixed Migration Centre, July 2020) [text]
- See also related press release.

"Once a Destination for Migrants, Post-Gaddafi Libya Has Gone from Transit Route to Containment," Migration Information Source, 6 Aug. 2020 [text]

“Palestinian Refugees in South East Asia: New Frontiers of a 70-year Exile,” Palestinian Yearbook of International Law, vol. 20 (2017; posted July 2020) [Academia]

The Repercussions of COVID-19 Measures on Syrian Refugees in Jordan: An Update (Refugees in Towns, March 2020) [text]

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, vol. 21, no. 2 (2020) [full-text]
- Special issue on "Historical Justice in the Israeli-Palestinian Context." Includes "Disentangling Displacements: Historical Justice for Mizrahim and Palestinians in Israel" and two articles on the right of return, among others.

Trump’s Vision/Deal of the Century: A Move to End the Palestinian Refugee Issue through Serious Breaches of International Law (BADIL, May 2020) [text]

Voices of Palestinian Refugee Youth Across the Near East: Socio-political Participation and Aspirations (Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development, June 2020) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:
Regional Focus: MENA, incl. Syria (27 July 2020) 


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