05 April 2022

Regional Focus: MENA

Blog posts & press:

Beyond Violent Raids, Sit-In Evictions and Arbitrary Detention in Tripoli (Libya): How Black Refugee Voices Refuse to be Silenced (Border Criminologies Blog, March 2022) [text]

The Dom in Lebanon: Citizens, Migrants, Refugees and Nomads (Borders and Limitations: The IMS Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

Eleven years on, mounting challenges push many displaced Syrians to the brink (UNHCR, March 2022) [text]

"A life of isolation for Syrian refugees in Jordan’s Azraq camp," Al Jazeera, 29 March 2022 [text]

Re-thinking Migration Studies? Developing social research training with refugee communities in Jordan (MPC Blog, March 2022) [text]

[Tunisia Update] (Twitter, March 2022) [access]
- "UNHCR Tunisia has kindly provided me with this statement concerning the situation of refugees in that country."

"U.N. investigates reports of migrant mass graves in Libya," Reuters, 29 March 2022 [text]

Yemen war turns seven (Order from Chaos Blog, March 2022) [text]

New open access book:

Living in Refuge: Ritualization and Religiosity in a Christian and a Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon (transcript Verlag, March 2022) [open access]
- This volume "contributes to the literature on refugees at large, and Palestinian refugees in particular, with the unique dense socio-historical portrait of two refugee camps for which there is almost no recorded literature."

Reports & journal articles:

The Effects of Social Assistance Interventions on Gender, Familial and Household Relations Among Refugees and Displaced Populations: A Review of the Literature on Interventions in Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, BASIC Research Working Paper. no. 11 (Institute of Development Studies, March 2022) [text]

The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus Approach: South Libya (WeWorld-GVC, March 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related nexus profile analysis of South and West Libya.

Inclusion and exclusion in urban refugee displacement in Jordan, HPG Working Paper (ODI, March 2022) [access]
- Follow link for report in English and executive summary in Arabic.

Local Peace Agreements and the Return of IDPs with Perceived ISIL Affiliation in Iraq, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 9916 (World Bank, Jan. 2022) [text]

"The National Health Cluster in Yemen: assessing the coordination of health response during humanitarian crises," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 7:9 (March 2022) [open access]

Outcome monitoring for multipurpose cash assistance for Syrian refugees (UNHCR, May 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Lebanon.

*Report of the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/49/4 (UN Human Rights Council, March 2022) [access]
- Section IX focuses on migrants. See also Arabic version.

Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/49/77 (UN Human Rights Council, Feb. 2022) [access]
- Follow link for report in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish. See also related UN News story.

UNHCR Position on Returns to Gaza (UNHCR, March 2022) [text]

*"Vulnerabilities of Arab refugees in primary health care: a scoping review," Revista de Saúde Pública, vol. 56 (2022) [open access]

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