Regional Focus: MENA

Blog posts & press:

"For Syrians in Jordan’s Za’atari camp, aid money doesn’t buy what it used to," The New Humanitarian, 22 Nov. 2022 [text]

Half a million Ethiopian migrants have been deported from Saudi Arabia in 5 years - what they go through (The Conversation, Dec. 2022) [text]

Improving health through retaining livelihoods: why refugee policy cannot ignore animals (MPC Blog, Nov. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Syrians in Jordan.

"Some return to war-battered hub of Palestinian life in Syria," AP News, 17 Nov. 2022 [text]

UNHCR’s Grandi: We must increase lifesaving support to vulnerable Lebanese and refugees and find solutions for Syrian refugees (UNHCR, Dec. 2022) [text]

Workshop at the NIMAR in Rabat: The socio (legal) study of migration in Morocco (Leiden Univ., Nov. 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"The Distinction Between Refugee Populations in Lebanon: A Look into Lebanon's Treatment of Palestinian Refugees Since 1948 Versus Its Treatment of Syrian Refugees Since 2011," Refugee Law & Migration Studies Brief, vol. 1, no. 1 (2022) [full-text]

Egypt: Registration and Refugee Status Determination (UNHCR, Nov. 2022) [text]

- See also related factsheet on legal aid.

Essential Readings on Forced Displacement: Perspectives from the Arab Region (American Univ. of Beirut, June 2022) [text]

Migration and asylum in Tunisia: Domestic interests, external influences, and policy outcomes (Asile Project, Sept. 2022) [text]

A Protection Analysis Report in South of Libya Operationalized through the Community Protection Approach (CPA) (WeWorld-GVC, Nov. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Relevant Country of Origin Information to Assist with the Application of UNHCR's Country Guidance on Iraq: Ability of Iraqis to Legally Access and Settle Durably in Proposed Areas of Internal Relocation (UNHCR, Nov. 2022) [text]

Safe with the Neighbours: Legal and Actual Protection of Forced Migrants in the Global South - Perspectives on and from Morocco, Dissertation (Ghent Univ., 2022) [text]

UNHCR Partnership with the League of Arab States (LAS) (UNHCR, Nov. 2022) [text]

UNRWA, funding crisis and the way forward, CMI Report, no. 4 (Chr. Michelsen Institute, 2022) [text]

Vulnerability amidst Compounded Crises in Lebanon: The experience of Syrian and Palestinian Refugees (VULNER Project, Sept. 2022) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (14 Nov. 2022)