Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Webinar: Refugees, Migration, and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa, 25 November 2020 [info]

- Includes two presentations: "Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration, and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa" and "Refugee Rentierism across MENA and the Global South."

Blog posts & press:

Ending the Yemen war is both a strategic and humanitarian imperative (Order from Chaos, Nov. 2020) [text]

Life-saving evacuations from Libya to Rwanda resume after nearly a year (UNHCR, Nov. 2020) [text]

- See also related news story.

A Recent History of Refugees in Saudi Arabia (Refugee History Blog, Nov. 2020) [text]

In Turkey, life for Syrian refugees and Kurds is becoming increasingly violent (The Conversation, Nov. 2020) [text]

Reports:

The Dynamics of Refugee Return: Syrian Refugees and Their Migration Intentions, IPL Working Paper, no. 20-08 (Immigration Policy Lab, Nov. 2020) [text]

- Focuses on Lebanon. See also related Monkey Cage post.

A Sense of No Future in an Uncertain Present: Altruism and Risk-Seeking among Syrian Refugees in Jordan, ILE Working Paper, no. 41 (Univ. of Hamburg, Nov. 2020) [text]

A Sharper Lens on Vulnerability (North Africa): A statistical analysis of the determinants of vulnerability to protection incidents among refugees and migrants on the move in North Africa (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2020) [text]

- See also related article.

Urban Mixed Migration: Tunis Case Study (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2020) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (30 Oct. 2020)