Regional Focus: MENA

Opportunity:

Course: European Border Externalization and the Transformation of Middle East and North African Host States, Cairo, 25-27 June 2023 [info]

- Application deadline extended to 30 May 2023.

Short pieces:

Building Better Aid Programs for Refugees (Bentley Univ., May 2023) [text]

- Focuses on Syrians in Lebanon.

"Moroccan drone strikes force Sahrawi from their homes," The New Humanitarian, 17 May 2023 [text]

On Prosecution, Persecution and Protection: Unpacking Anti-Refugee Narratives, Kinopolitics and Selective Outrage in Lebanon (RLI Blog, May 2023) [text]

*Syrian Refugee Deportation in Lebanon: A Critical Perspective (Sada, May 2023) [text]

Syrian refugees fear normalization with Assad. Because it means they will have to return—and not by choice (MENASource, May 2023) [text]

"UN marks 75 years since displacement of 700,000 Palestinians," UN News, 15 May 2023 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

The Effect of Housing Environments on Mental Well-Being and the Impact of War Among Syrian Refugees in Jordan: Comparison between In-Camp and Urban Populations, Preprints with The Lancet, 16 May 2023 [preprint]

"Lebanese migration policy since 2011 and its role in the Syrian refugee movement," Chapter in Migration Patterns Across the Mediterranean: Exchanges, Conflicts and Coexistence (Edward Elgar, May 2023) [open access]

Legal aid for migrants and refugees: Continuous efforts, better protection?, Policy Memo, no. 1 (Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development, Sept. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Jordan.

Palestinian Christians: The Forcible Displacement and Dispossession Continues (BADIL, May 2023) [text]

"Re-(B)ordering: The Impact of the European Union’s Externalisation of Migration on the Human Rights of Migrants in Libya," Journal of Modern Slavery, vol. 8, no. 1 (2023) [full-text]

Refugee Communities Mobilising in the Middle East: Refugee-led Organisations in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey - Final Report (LERRN & Centre for Lebanese Studies, April 2023) [text]

- Previous project updates are available here.

Syria: UN must continue cross-border aid regardless of UN Security Council or Syrian government approval (Amnesty International, May 2023) [text]

- See also related news release.

"Tense Neighbors, Algeria and Morocco Have Divergent Migration Histories," Migration Information Source, 18 May 2023 [text]

Vaccine Hesitancy among Internally Displaced People in Northwest Syria (MedGlobal, May 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Who Owns the Future of Syrians in Lebanon? Intimate Family Explorations of Refugees’ Own Search for Durable Solutions," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 19 May 2023 [open access]

Multimedia:

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe (Al Jazeera, May 2023) [access]

History of Migration to and From Egypt (EHUB Podcast Series, May 2023) [access]

*Palestinian refugees in Syria (Connections Podcast Series, May 2023) [access]

*The Situation of Urban Refugees: Cairo as a Case Study (EHUB Podcast Series, May 2023) [access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (8 May 2023)