27 March 2021

Regional Focus: MENA

Opportunities:

Conference: Supporting the future of Syria and the region, Online, 29-30 March 2021 [info]

Webinar: Refugee-host community relations during Covid-19 and beyond: Lessons from the Middle East and Southern Africa, 8 April 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Considering kin and countrymen – challenges to social networks among Syrians in Tripoli, Lebanon (TRAFIG Blog, March 2021) [text]

How refugees' decision to live in or outside a camp affects their quality of life (Development for Peace Blog, March 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Syrians in Jordan.

Inside Syria, millions face destitution after a decade of pain (UNHCR, March 2021) [text]

Reports:

2021 Compounding Misfortunes: An Update to the Study (World Bank, UNHCR & WFP, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
 - Published in preparation for the 5th Brussels Conference on Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region Conference.

Asylum Amidst Collapse: Viewpoints on Lebanon in the struggle to survive amidst economic devastation and the pandemic (Lebanon Humanitarian INGO Forum, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

A Bridge to Firmer Ground: Learning from International Experiences to Support Pathways to Solutions in the Syrian Refugee Context (Migration Policy Institute, March 2021) [text]

‘I wished I would die’: Syrian refugees arbitrarily detained on terrorism-related charges and tortured in Lebanon (Amnesty International, March 2021) [text]

On the 10th Anniversary of the Popular Uprising: 227,413 Syrian Civilians Documented Killed, Including 14,506 by Torture, with 149,361 Detained/Forcibly Disappeared, and 13 Million Others Displaced (Syrian Network for Human Rights, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Can the Arab Region meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030?," Cairo Review of Global Affairs (Winter 2021) [full-text]

"Dispossessing the Displaced in Lebanon," Contexts, vol. 20, no. 1 (2021) [free full-text]

"Mediated Narratives of Syrian Refugees: Mapping Victim–Threat Correlations in Turkish Newspapers," Chapter 9 in Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa: Producing Space (Amsterdam Univ. Press, March 2021) [open access]

"Positive versus negative contact and refugees' intentions to migrate: The mediating role of perceived discrimination, life satisfaction and identification with the host society among Syrian refugees in Turkey," Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, Early View, 6 March 2021 [postprint]
- Note: Access to the complete text is under embargo until 6 March 2022.

Multimedia:

COVID-19 Recovery and the Next Stage of the Syrian Refugee Response After Ten Years, 17 March 2021 [access]
- Follow link for both a podcast and a video recording.

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