Regional Focus: MENA

News & commentary on Gaza: 

Visit ReliefWeb for a comprehensive listing of updates and situation reports.

• The Directive to Evacuate Northern Gaza: Advance Warning or Forced Displacement? (Just Security Blog, Oct. 2023) [text] [see also related post in The Conversation]
• "EU External Partners: With More Than Half of Gaza’s Population Displaced, EU Struggles for Consensus and Focuses on Prevention of Arrivals Through a Deal with Egypt," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 20 Oct. 2023 [text]
• Expert Guidance: Law of Armed Conflict in the Israel-Hamas War (Just Security Blog, Oct. 2023) [text]
• Gaza bombing adds to the generations of Palestinians displaced from their homes (The Conversation, Nov. 2023) [text]
• Gaza’s ‘graveyard’ for children: Why Palestinians must be included in the international refugee protection regime (The Conversation, Nov. 2023) [text]
• Humanitarian Assistance and West Bank/Gaza (Wilson Center Blog, Oct. 2023) [text]
• "Is There a Path to Refugee Resettlement for Palestinians?," VOA News, 28 Oct. 2023 [text]
• "Republicans want to ban Palestinian refugees from entering the U.S., but it's already very hard for them to get in," NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023 [text] [see also related post in The Asylumist]
• UN warns that Gaza desperately needs more aid − an emergency relief expert explains why it is especially tough working in Gaza (The Conversation, Oct. 2023) [text]
• "What to know about Gaza refugee camps after Israeli strike on Jabalya," Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023 [text]
• "Why Egypt and other Arab countries are unwilling to take in Palestinian refugees from Gaza," AP News, 19 Oct. 2023 [text]

New open access book:

Migrations in the Mediterranean: IMISCOE Regional Reader (Springer, Oct. 2023) [open access]

- "This volume seeks to cover the overall Mediterranean regional dimension on migrations. The basic purpose is to provide a basis for future research synergies by showcasing a plurality of perspectives to and applications of Mediterranean Migrations. ...It links Mediterranean and Migration Studies by articulating three sub-regions (Southern Europe, Northern Africa and Middle East) or the so-called Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEM) countries in the EU parlance."

Other publications:

"Displacement in Place and the Financial Crisis in Lebanon," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 24 Oct. 2023 [open access]

"Establishment of a birth-to-education cohort of 1 million Palestinian refugees using electronic medical records and electronic education records," International Journal of Population Data Science, vol. 8, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

A Social and Behavior Change Strategy for Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Behaviors in Azraq Camp – Jordan (Action contre la Faim France, Nov. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Social Identity Theory and Internal Displacement: A Longitudinal Case Study of Iraqi Christians in Kurdistan, RID Working Paper, no. 38 (Researching Internal Displacement, Oct. 2023) [text] 

"A Sustainable Wind–Biogas Hybrid System for Remote Areas in Jordan: A Case Study of Mobile Hospital for a Zaatari Syrian Refugee Camp," Sustainability, vol 15, no. 20 (Oct. 2023) [open access]

UNRWA: In Anticipation of a Double Collapse (PRIO Blog, Oct. 2023) [text]

Yearning for a home that no longer exists: The dilemma facing people forced to flee in Yemen (Danish Refugee Council & Norwegian Refugee Council, Nov. 2023) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (13 Oct. 2023)