23 February 2021

Regional Focus: MENA

*Opportunities:

Job announcement: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Rights for Time Project, Centre for Lebanese Studies [info]
- Apply by 2 March 2021.

Seminar: Prison or Sanctuary? An Evaluation of Camps for Syrian Refugees, 2 March 2021 [info]

Seminar: Refugee-led Responses to Overlapping Precarity: Views from North Lebanon, 16 March 2021 [info]

Short course: Palestine Refugees and International Law, University of Macedonia, Online, 28-29 May 23-24 July 2021 [info]
- Please note the revised details. Apply by 29 March 2021.

Blog posts & press:

New survey shows how COVID-19 exacerbates the critical needs of Yemen’s IDPs (IDMC Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

Palestinian Refugees: Myth vs Reality (MEI, Feb. 2021) [text]

Yemen's 'marginalized ones' endure hunger, displacement (UNHCR, Feb. 2021) [text]

Reports:

Closely Knit: An Assessment of Migrants’ Social Networks in Libya (IOM, Jan. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

A decade of displacement in the Middle East and North Africa (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Feb. 2021) [text]
- "The first of its kind, [this report] delves into the scale, drivers, patterns and impacts of internal displacement in MENA."

Equal access to COVID-19 vaccines: who is responsible in the occupied Palestinian territory? (Medical Aid for Palestinians, Feb. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Exploring Refugee Administration Systems in Egypt, Jordan, and Uganda: A Comparative Study, Master's Thesis (American Univ. in Cairo, 2021) [text]

The Impact of Living Arrangements (In-Camp versus Out-of-Camp) on the Quality of Life: A Case Study of Syrian Refugees in Jordan, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 9533 (World Bank, Feb. 2021) [text]

Influx of Syrian Refugees in Jordan: Effects on the Water Sector (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research & Govt. of Jordan, Feb. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Palestinian Refugee Regime: Tensions between the Collective Right of Return and Individual Rights, Master's Thesis (American Univ. in Cairo, 2021) [text]

Refugee Governance in Crisis: The Case of the EU-Lebanon Compact (MAGYC Project, Dec. 2020) [text]

Syrians in Turkey: Experiences of migration and integration through a survey study (RESPOND Project, Feb. 2021) [text]

Yemen Protection Brief (Protection Cluster, Jan. 2021) [text]

Journal articles:

Anthropology of the Middle East, vol. 16, no. 1 (2021) [open access]
- Special issue on "States of Displacement: Middle Eastern Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Asylum Seekers in Global Context."

"COVID‐19, Economic Recession, and the Refugee Situation," International Migration, vol. 59, no. 1 (Feb. 2021) [free full-text]
- Focuses on Afghans in Iran.

"Media Coverage of Syrian Female Refugees in Jordan and Lebanon," SAGE Open, 19 Feb. 2021 [open access]

"Migration diplomacy in the Gulf: non-state actors, cross-border mobility, and the United Arab Emirates," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 10 Feb. 2021 [open access]

Multimedia:

The international refugee regime and postcolonial sovereignty: Algeria, refugees & the UNHCR 1954-63. 3 Feb. 2021 [access]

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