17 August 2021

Regional Focus: MENA

Opportunity:

Job announcement: Research Officer, LERRN, Carleton Univ. [info]
- Candidate will provide support to the project, "Knowledge Ecosystems on Forced Displacement in East Africa and the Middle East." Apply by 18 August 2021.

Blog posts & press:

Afghan refugees reach Iran as violence escalates (UNHCR, Aug. 2021) [text]

Essential Readings on Refugees and Forced Displacement (Jadaliyya, July 2021) [text]

Facing the abyss: Refugees and the Beirut port explosion one year later (MEI, Aug. 2021) [text]

"Palestine refugees face ‘dire’ humanitarian conditions amid ongoing clashes in southern Syria: UNRWA," UN News, 16 Aug. 2021 [text]

Research terminology from the ‘Global North’ to the ‘Global South’: Conceptualisations, interpretations and challenges from Hatay, Turkey (Southern Responses to Displacement, June 2021) [text]

UNHCR statement on the return of displaced Syrians (UNHCR, July 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

From Refugees to Asylum Seekers? Palestinian Refugees and the Syrian Conflict (IEMed, Aug. 2021) [text]

"How Does the Sense of Closeness to God Affect Attitudes toward Refugees in Turkey? Multiculturalism and Social Contact as Mediators and National Belonging as Moderator," Religions, vol. 12, no. 8 (July 2021) [open access]

"Humans and Animals in a Refugee Camp: Baquba, Iraq, 1918–20," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 32, no. 2 (2019) [free full-text]
- Note: This article was the recent winner of the Lisa Gilad prize.

"Legacies of war: Syrian narratives of conflict and visions of peace," Cooperation and Conflict, OnlineFirst, 20 July 2021 [open access]

"Refugee Mental Health, Global Health Policy, and the Syrian Crisis," Frontiers in Public Health, 3 Aug. 2021 [open access]

Multimedia:

The Intersections of Syrian Refugees’ Dilemma: Settlement, Onward Movement, and Return, 16 June 2021 [access]

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

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