15 September 2020

Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1

 Opportunities:

Job announcement: Consultancy, Mixed Migration Centre [info]
-  Candidates sought to undertake "Study on Mixed Migration to and through Morocco and Mixed Migration Monitoring Mechanism initiative (4Mi) Assessment." Apply by 21 September 2020.

Job announcement: Consultancy, Mixed Migration Centre [info]
- Candidates sought to undertake "Research on the determinants of destination choices of refugees and migrants in Libya." Apply by 30 September 2020.

Blog posts & press:

The Beirut Blast and What It Says about How Displacement is Monitored (IDMC Blog, Sept. 2020) [text]

Between the Desert and the Sea: The Plight of Refugees in Morocco (Pulitzer Center, March 2019) [text]

The End of the Road? Rejected Asylum Seekers in the Global South (RLI Blog, Sept. 2020) [text]
- Focuses on Egypt.

Refugees and Scientists Develop Sustainable PPE to Combat Covid-19 (Univ. of Sheffield News, Sept. 2020) [text]
- A  collaboration with refugees living in Zaatari camp.

"'The sea is dead': How Fishing and Migration Collide on Tunisia’s Shores," The New Humanitarian, 14 Sept. 2020 [text]

Syrian Refugees Help Raise Funds for Victims of Beirut Explosion (UNHCR, Sept. 2020) [text]

What the Beirut Blast Means for Lebanon’s Refugees (Cairo Rev. Global Forum, Sept. 2020) [text]

New open access book:

Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in the Middle East, 1850-1950: Ideologies, Rhetoric, and Practices (Brill, Sept. 2020) [open access]

Journal articles:

Civic Society Review, vol. 1, no. 4 (July 2020) [full-text]
- Theme of this issue is "Challenging 'Migration Governance' in the Middle East and Turkey: Dynamic Power Relations, Contested Interventions, and Individual Strategies." Includes a number of articles on Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.

*"Conducting Comparative Migration Research in MENA: Are the Regional Countries Too Unique or Too Similar for Comparisons of Refugee Policies," Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs, vol. XXV, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2020) [Academia]

"From Operation Iraqi Freedom to the Battle of Mosul: Fifteen Years of Displacement in Iraq," International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 101, no. 912 (Dec. 2019; posted Nov. 2020) [full-text]

"Refugee Family Voices: Shelter Needs in Iraqi Kurdistan," International Migration, Early View, 24 Aug. 2020 [free full-text]

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