Regional Focus: MENA

Blog posts & press:

“New” and “Old” Refugees Navigate Emerging Political Economic Realities in Lebanon’s Chatila Camp (RLI Blog, April 2021) [text]

“They Pretend Not to Hear”: Unpacking the European Union’s Use of Libya as a Transit Country for Refugees (RefLaw Blog, April 2021) [text]

"Whistleblowers detail new Oxfam misconduct allegations in Iraq," The New Humanitarian, 15 April 2021 [text]

Why Syrian refugees in Lebanon are a crisis within a crisis (Future Development Blog, April 2021) [text]

Reports:

Beyond four walls and a roof: Reflections on the multi-sectoral One Neighbourhood Approach for Syrian Refugees and Host Communities, Tripoli, Lebanon (CARE, April 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Evaluation of the UNRWA Protection Audit Mechanism (UNRWA, April 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Figurations of Displacement in and beyond Jordan: Empirical findings and reflections on protracted displacement and translocal connections of Syrian refugees, Working Paper, no. 6 (TRAFIG Project, April 2021) [text]

Internal Displacement in Libya: Displacement from Tripoli during Hostilities in 2019-2020 (IOM & Libya Ministry of Displaced People’s Affairs, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

International Protection Considerations with Regard to People Fleeing the Syrian Arab Republic, Update VI (UNHCR, March 2021) [text]

Out-of-camp but not out of mind: Supporting Syrian refugees in Jordan’s cities, Practice Note, no. 6 (TRAFIG Project, April 2021) [text]

Rebuilding Leviathan: A Quantitative Analysis of Internally Displaced Persons, Syrian Refugees, and Citizens in Aleppo (CMEPS-J, April 2021) [text]

Return Mania: Mapping Policies and Practices in the EuroMed Region (EuroMed Rights, March & April 2021) [intro.]

- Chapter 1: The EU framework of return policies in the EuroMediterranean Region [text]

- Chapter 2: Returns from Spain to Morocco [text]

- Chapter 3: Forced Returns from France to Morocco [text]

- Chapter 4: The Policy of Forced Returns Between Italy and Tunisia [text]

- Chapter 5: Egypt: a repressive environment, fertile ground for the EU’s return obsession [text]

- Chapter 6: Pushbacks and expulsions from Cyprus and Lebanon: The dangers of (chain) refoulement to Syria [text]

- Chapter 7: Turkey’s return policies to Syria & their impacts on migrants and refugees’ human rights [text]

Sixth Regional Survey on Syrian Refugees’ Perceptions & Intentions on Return to Syria: Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan (UNHCR, March 2021) [text]

Multimedia:

Country Case Study: Egypt (Melissa Siegel) 

- Part 1: History of Migration [access]

- Part 2: Migration Policies [access]

- Part 3: Current Migration Situation [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (9 April 2021)