02 September 2021

Regional Focus: MENA

Opportunity:

Job announcement: Policy and Advocacy Officer, St. Andrew’s Refugee Services, Cairo [info]
- Apply by 12 September 2021.

Blog posts & press:

List of publicly available resources: Gaza Strip and UNRWA programming and financial situation (UNRWA, Aug. 2021) [text via Refworld]

Saudi Arabia: Yemeni Workers at Risk of Mass Forced Returns - Face Possible Return to Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis, Loss of Critical Remittances (Human Rights Watch, Aug. 2021) [text]

Shelter needs soar for newly displaced in Yemen’s Marib (UNHCR, Aug. 2021) [text]

Reports:

COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake: A study of Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Marginalized Communities in Iraq (CARE, Aug. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Protecting refugees from COVID-19: Identifying barriers to safer practices during humanitarian assistance in Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon (ELRHA & Michigan State Univ., May 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Protracted Displacement in Iraq: District of Origin Profiles (IOM, Aug. 2021 [text via ReliefWeb]

Starvation Makers: The use of starvation by warring parties in Yemen as a method of warfare (Mwatana for Human Rights & Global Rights Compliance, Sept. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"The adaptation of Turkish health literacy scale for literate Syrian adult refugees living in Turkey: a reliability–validity study," Conflict and Health, 15:65 (Aug. 2021) [open access]

"Challenges and lessons learned in mental health research among refugees: a community-based study in Turkey," BMC Public Health, 21:1537 (Aug. 2021) [open access]

"Consanguinity rates among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: a study on genetic awareness," Journal of Biosocial Science, vol. 53, no. 3 (May 2021) [ResearchGate]

"Empowering the crowd: feasible strategies for epidemic management in high-density informal settlements. The case of COVID-19 in Northwest Syria," BMJ Global Health, vol. 6, no. 8 (Aug. 2021) [open access]

"Forced Migration and Protection: Turkey’s Domestic Responses to the Syrian Refugees," European Review, FirstView, 18 March 2021 [open access]

Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 34, no. 3 (June 2021) [contents]
- Includes a special section on "Displaced Syrians," with a freely available introduction and nine articles. 
- Three of these are open access: "‘Do Like You Did in Aleppo’: Negotiating Space and Place Among Syrian Musicians in Istanbul"; "Refugees but not Refugees: The UAE’s Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis Viewed through the Lived Experience of Syrians in Abu Dhabi"; and "The Syrian Emergency: A Catalyst for Change in the International Refugee Regime."

"Tunisia’s migration politics throughout the 2011 revolution: revisiting the democratisation–migrant rights nexus," Third World Quarterly, Latest Articles, 9 July 2021 [open access]

"What Drives Migration to Europe? Survey Experimental Evidence from Lebanon," International Migration Review, vol. 55, no. 3 (2021) [open access]

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