Regional Focus: MENA

Opportunity:

CFP: Frontiers in Human Dynamics/Political Science [info]

- Contributions sought for a research topic on "International UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People: Refugees and Conflict Studies." Submit abstracts by 31 March 2022.

Blog posts & press:

20,000 migrants taken back to Libya reported missing in 2021: Oxfam (InfoMigrants, Feb. 2022) [text]

Egypt: Forced Returns of Eritrean Asylum Seekers (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 2022) [text]

Libya/EU: Conditions remain ‘hellish’ as EU marks 5 years of cooperation agreements (Amnesty International, Jan. 2022) [text]

"Migrant abuses continue in Libya. So does EU border training," AP News, 25 Jan. 2022 [text]

Syrian refugees in Jordan: A decade and counting (Future Development Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Choosing Heating Instead of Eating: The Sacrifices Displaced Syrians Have to Make to Survive Their Worst Winter Yet (Syria Relief, Feb. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Co-payments and equity in care: enhancing hospitalisation policy for Palestine refugees in Lebanon," BMC Health Services Research, 22:121 (Jan. 2022) [open access]

"Comparing online and in-person surveys: assessing a measure of resilience with Syrian refugee youth," International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Latest Articles, 24 April 2021 [Yale Univ.]

"Decentralized sanitation solutions for temporal Internally Displaced people (IDPs) and refugees camps and residential complexes in Duhok province: Case study," Ain Shams Engineering Journal, vol. 13, no. 4 (June 2022) [open access]

- Focuses on Iraq.

"La doble lógica de la externalización europea: protección y deportación en Marruecos," Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, no. 129 (2021) [open access]

DOMES: Digest of Middle East Studies, vol. 30, no. 4 (Fall 2021) [contents]

- Special issue on "Taking Stock of Middle East Migration since the Arab Uprisings." The introduction is freely available and two articles are open access: "The perils of refugee rentierism in the post-2011 Middle East" and "The governance of Syrian refugees in the Middle East: Lessons from the Jordan and Lebanon Compacts." A third article on "Displaced Syrians’ reflections on dignity" can be accessed here.

"Permanentemente confinados: el impacto de la COVID-19 en la población refugiada palestina," Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, no. 129 (2021) [open access]

"Refugees Hosting Other Refugees: Endurance and Maintenance of Care in Ouzaii (Lebanon)," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 34, no. 3 (Sept. 2021) [postprint]

Sharing to Survive: Investigating the Role of Social Networks During Yemen's Humanitarian Crisis (Mercy Corps, Jan. 2022) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Follow link for report and executive summary in both English and Arabic.

"Studying Forced Migration in the Global South: The Role of Everyday Politics," Comparative Politics Newsletter, vol. XXXI, no. 2 (Fall 2021) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 33. Focuses on Syrians in Turkey.

"Syrian Refugees in Jordan: Between Economic Precarity and Legal Vulnerability," Chapter in Revisiting the 1951 Refugee Convention: Exploring Global Perspectives (Observer Research Foundation & Global Policy Journal, 2022) [open access]

- Scroll to p. 50.

"Turkish and Libyan Refugee Deals: A Critical Analysis of the European Union's Securitarian Irregular Migration Policy," Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, vol. 8, no. 1 (Jan. 2022) [open access]

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- Regional Focus: MENA (26 Jan. 2022)