29 February 2024

Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 2

Opportunity:

CFP: Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire [info]
- Contributions sought for special issue on "Seeking Refuge beyond Europe: New perspectives on European Refugees, Migrants and Exiles in the Middle East and North Africa, 19th-20th centuries." Submit abstracts by 15 April 2024.

Short pieces:

About 4,000 Palestinians displaced in the West Bank in 2023 (OCHA, Feb. 2024) [text]

"After record year, Tunisia reports migrant deaths from shipwreck near Libyan waters," AP News, 15 Feb. 2024 [text]

"Comment: Compounding challenges for Syrian refugees in Türkiye in the wake of the earthquake," The Lancet Global Health, OnlineFirst, 7 Feb. 2024 [open access]

Explainer: UNHCR's Emergency Transit Mechanism Centre in Rwanda (UNHCR, Feb. 2024) [text]
- Note: "Through the ETM, refugees and asylum-seekers at heightened risk in Libya are evacuated on an emergency, voluntary and temporary basis, as direct resettlement from Libya is not possible for some destination countries."

"Displacement and upheaval in southern Lebanon as Israel intensifies airstrikes," The New Humanitarian, 29 Feb. 2024 [text]

Inclusive Social Protection for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Egypt (UNICEF, Feb. 2024) [text]

Refugee Status for Palestinians Where UNRWA Assistance Has Ceased (Lexology, Feb. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Displacement as Heterotopic Space: The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan," Geopolitics, vol. 29, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Shape grammars and self-built refugee communities: The transformation from tent shelter to customized structure in Irbid Camp," International Journal of Architectural Computing, OnlineFirst, 23 Jan. 2024 [open access]

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