Regional Focus: MENA

Short pieces:

Ruthless, Illegal, and Dangerous: Algeria’s unprecedented mass deportations are creating a humanitarian emergency in Niger (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, March 2023) [text]

Tunisia’s president is targeting migrants to divert attention from serious domestic problems – a classic tactic (The Conversation, March 2023) [text]

- See also related news reports from Human Rights Watch and in The New Humanitarian.

New open access book:

Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Between Reception and Integration (Springer, March 2023) [open access]

- "This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of Turkey’s response to Syrian mass migration from 2011 to 2020. It examines internal and external dimensions of the refugee issue in relation to Middle Eastern geopolitics as well as the salience of controlling irregular migration to the European Union. ...One of its main goals is to compare differences in policy practices across provinces in order to better capture ways in which Syrian refugees claim agency, develop belonging and experience integration in the context of cultural intimacy, precarity and temporariness."

Reports & journal articles:

"Biomass use and its health effects among the vulnerable and marginalized refugee families in the Gaza Strip," Frontiers in Public Health, 6 April 2023 [open access]

"A Crisis Within a Crisis: Working and Living Conditions of Syrian and Palestinian Refugees during the COVID-19 in Jordan," Migration Letters, vol. 2, no. 2 (2023) [open access]

"The Drowned and the Displaced: Afterlives of Agrarian Developmentalism across the Lebanese-Syrian Border," Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, vol. 10, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

"Entombing humanitarianism: The Yemen humanitarian crisis and its implications on the humanitarian system," Autónoma Internacional, no. 4 (Dec. 2022) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 81. See also related article in The New Humanitarian.

"Humanitarian Diplomacy Strategy for Syrian Refugees and its Effect on Jordan's Foreign Policy,"  Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, vol. 9, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

MENA Politics: Newsletter of the Middle East and North Africa Politics Section of APSA, vol. 5, no. 2 (Fall 2022) [full-text]

- Includes a sub-section on "Research Symposium: How to Study (and Not Study) Refugees in the MENA." Scroll to p. 21.

Report of the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/52/83 (UN Human Rights Council, March 2023) [access via ReliefWeb]

- "The Mission has found reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity were committed against Libyans and migrants throughout Libya in the context of deprivation of liberty." Follow link for the official report in English and Arabic. A separate report provides "Detailed findings of the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya." See also related HRW dispatch on subsequent UN resolution.

"A Study of the Afghan Refugees and Undocumented Migrants in Iran Respective the Right to Health on the Pandemic Occasion," Chapter in Os Desafios dos Direitos Humanos Durante e na pós Pandemia no Mundo Globalizado (Editora Fi, 2023) [open access]

- Scroll to p. 129.

The unbearable life: The health impacts of Israeli measures to forcibly evict the residents of Masafer Yatta (Médecins Sans Frontières, April 2023) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (21 March 2023)