09 April 2021

Regional Focus: MENA

Opportunity:

*Call for proposals: Establishing research chairs on forced displacement in the Middle East and East Africa [info]
- Note: An info session on this call will be held 13 April 2021. The submission deadline is 3 August 2021.

Blog posts & press:

120,000 refugees assisted to access Iran’s health insurance scheme (UNHCR, April 2021) [text]

Cash in a COVID-19 Crisis: Adapting Approaches to Assisting Jordan-based Refugees (CaLP Blog, April 2021) [text]

Jordan: Yemeni Asylum Seekers Deported (Human Rights Watch, March 2021) [text]

Lebanon: Refugees, Migrants Left Behind in Vaccine Rollout (Human Rights Watch, April 2021) [text]

A Sociology of Knowledge on Displacement and Humanitarianism (Southern Responses to Displacement, March 2021) [text]
- Summary of a chapter contributed to the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East.

Supporting the future of Syria and the region, Brussels V Conference, 29-30 March 2021 [access]
- Follow link for video recordings, background documents, statements and pledges, and info on side events. See also related ECRE Weekly Bulletin article, OCHA/UNHCR/UNDP joint press release, and UN News story.

"UNRWA chief reports on despair and hope among Palestinian refugees," UN News, 7 April 2021 [text]

What happens to migrants intercepted at sea by the Libyan coast guard? (InfoMigrants, April 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"The Border Harms of Human Displacement: Harsh Landscapes and Human Rights Violations," Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 4 (March 2021) [open access]
- Focuses on Syria.

Exiled within: Between citizenship and the struggle for return for internal Palestinian refugees in Israel, RSC Working Paper, no. 134 (Refugee Studies Centre, March 2021) [text]

“I could not sleep while they were hungry” Investigating the role of social networks in Yemen’s humanitarian crisis (Mercy Corps, April 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

No city is the same: Livelihood opportunities among self-settled Syrian refugees in Beirut, Tripoli and Tyre, CMI Insight, no. 1 (Chr. Michelsen Institute, March 2021) [text]

"Palestinian Refugee Youth in Jordan: Parental Practices, Neighborhood Cohesion and Assistance and Adolescent Wellbeing," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 7 (March 2021) [open access]

*Supporting Syrian Refugees amidst Lebanon’s Crises (Geneva Centre for Security Policy, April 2021) [access]

*To cooperate or not to cooperate? An analysis of in-group favoritism among Syrian refugees, ILE Working Paper, no. 48 (Univ. of Hamburg, 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Syrians in Jordan and Germany.

"Undocumented migrants in Saudi Arabia: COVID‐19 and amnesty reforms," International Migration, Early View, 31 March 2021 [free full-text]

Multimedia:

Life during COVID-19 under blockade in Gaza, 7 April 2021 [access]
- Follow link for video recording.

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