Regional Focus: MENA

Blog posts & press:

"Aid to Palestinians has failed. Here’s how to fix it," The New Humanitarian, 3 May 2022 [text]

Interview: Chair of AUC’s Center for Migration and Refugee Studies Talks on Scholars Network and Mixed Migration Knowledge Production (Mixed Migration Hub, April 2022) [text]

Libyan authorities deny carrying out 'horrific crimes against migrants' (InfoMigrants, May 2022) [text]

Message from the United Nations humanitarian, refugee, and development chiefs on the situation in Syria and the region (UNHCR, May 2022) [text]

Morocco and the Marrakech Compact: a leader, not yet a champion (RLI Blog, May 2022) [text]

"Turkey Plans Return of a Million Syrians as Refugee Critics Grow," Bloomberg, 3 May 2022 [text]

World Leaders are Forgetting about Syrian Refugees (Sada Blog, May 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

The Impact of Forced Migration on In-Group and Out-Group Social Capital, Working Paper, no. 9636 (CESifo, 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Syrians and Palestinians in Lebanon.

"Jordan and Syrian humanitarian refugees' dilemma: international law perspective," Heliyon, vol. 8, no. 5 (May 2022) [open access]

"More than the Sum of Its Parts: Donor-Sponsored Cash-for-Work Programmes and Social Cohesion in Jordanian Communities Hosting Syrian Refugees," European Journal of Development Research, Latest Articles, 13 May 2022 [open access]

Refugee Hosts [access]

- "This project aims to reframe debates about the roles and experiences of local communities and refugees in contexts of conflict-induced displacement in the global South, with a particular focus on displacement from Syria to neighbouring countries in the Middle East." Read the five research notes issued at the culmination of the project via the a/m link.

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, on his visit to Lebanon, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/50/38/Add.1 (UN Human Rights Council, April 2022) [access]

- Discusses the situation of Syrian and Palestinian refugees.

"Re-thinking the drivers of regular and irregular migration: evidence from the MENA region," Comparative Migration Studies, 10:21 (May 2022) [open access]

UNRWA at 70: Palestinian Refugees in Context = 70 عامًا على الأونروا: اللاجئون الفلسطينيون من منظور شامل (Palestinian Return Centre & Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, May 2022) [text]

- Follow the link to access an Arabic translation of the original English text published in 2020.

Working together for the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: Arab regional review (ESCWA & IOM, May 2022) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Follow link for both English and Arabic versions.

Multimedia:

A Comparative Perspective on Syrian and Venezuelan Displacements, 28 March 2022 [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (27 April 2022)