02 June 2021

Regional Focus: MENA

Blog posts & press:

1948 to 1951: The racial politics of humanitarianism and return in Palestine (Identities Journal Blog, May 2021) [text]

The Jordan Compact: A model for burden-sharing in the refugee crisis (RLI Blog, May 2021) [text]

The New Palestinian Refugees (EJIL: Talk Blog, May 2021) [text]

Returning Iraqis face dire conditions following camp closures (UNHCR, May 2021) [text]

Reports:

Bring the Planners Back! Displacement-Triggered Patterns of Urbanization and City Responses, Policy Brief, no. 58 (Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, May 2021) [text]

Can Refugees Speak? Challenging Power and Creating Space in the Humanitarian System for Refugee Agency and Voice, Dissertation (Univ. of Ottawa, May 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Lebanon.

Equity with Prejudice: International NGOs and Healthcare Delivery in Refugee Crises, Program on Governance and Local Development Working Paper, no. 44 (Univ. of Gothenburg, 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Syrians in Lebanon.

An Overview of Displacement in Iraq (IOM, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Perception of Refugees in Jordan Survey (Wave I): Final Report (UNHCR & NAMA, Dec. 2020) [text]
- See also related news story.

A Region on the Move: 2020 Mobility Overview in the East and Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (IOM, May 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Urban Displacement in Federal Iraq (IOM, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Where to Settle? How Syrian Refugees Choose Their Place of Residence in Lebanon, Policy Brief, no. 58 (Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, May 2021) [text]

Books/book chapters:

Reconciliation and Refugees: The Academic Alliance for Reconciliation Studies in the Middle East and North Africa
(Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021) [full-text via AAUP]
- The essays included in this collection resulted from a conference held to mark the establishment of the Academic Alliance for Reconciliation Studies in the Middle East and North Africa (AARMENA).

Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees: Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America (Berghahn Books, June 2021) [open access]
- Note: The text is not yet available to download, but check the ToC to see what is covered in this forthcoming volume.

Visual Securitization: Humanitarian Representations and Migration Governance (Springer, May 2021) [open access]
- "This open access book offers an innovative account of how relief organizations’ visual depiction of Syrian displacement contributes to reproduce and reinforce a securitized account of refugees."

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," with five articles.

"A paradise without people. Ambivalence in representations of migration and its outcomes when Syrian refugees talk about secondary migration to Europe," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 25 May 2021 [open access]

"Refugees, Migration and the Tightening Borders in the Middle East. A Perspective from Biographical Research on the Re‐Figuration of Spaces and Cross‐Cultural Comparison," FQS: Forum Qualitative Social Research, vol. 22, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

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