20 August 2024

Regional Focus: MENA

Short pieces:

Gaza: No Safe Place for Civilians (Brookings Commentary, July 2024) [text]

Gaza Humanitarian Access Snapshot #3 (30 July-12 August) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Gazans are caught in a cycle of displacement by the Israeli military," NPR, 15 Aug. 2024 [text]
- See also related articles in The New Humanitarian and Politico

"How 100,000 Palestinians are Surviving in Egypt without Refugee Status," Foreign Policy, 15 Aug. 2024 [text]

“It Is One Big Prison”: Challenges in Repatriation from Al Hol Camp in Syria (TIMEP, Aug. 2024) [text]

Libyan minister: Hosting migrants has become 'unacceptable' (InfoMigrants, July 2024) [text]

Rhetoric and Repression: Anti-Migrant Discourse as a Political Weapon in Tunisia (TIMEP, July 2024) [text]

New open access book:

The Politics of Refugee Policy in the Global South
(McGill-Queen's University Press, May 2024) [open access]
- "Shifting the focus from sensationalist rhetoric about mass migration to the North, The Politics of Refugee Policy in the Global South provides a comparative analysis of Lebanon’s and Jordan’s responses to the Syrian refugee movement, one of the largest displacements in modern history. Through extensive interviews and process tracing, Ola El-Taliawi uncovers the complex realities of refugee hosting and the hard choices governments make in light of this challenge. Building on the concept of complexity, El-Taliawi employs a unique methodology and analytical approach, painting a nuanced picture of asylum provision and identifying a spectrum of refugee hosting models."

Reports:

Analysis of the Recent Events in Yemen Impacting Protection Activities (Global Protection Cluster, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Governance of Migration by Decree: Legal Life of Afghan Migrants in Iran, RLI Working Paper, no. 70 (Refugee Law Initiative, March 2024) [text]

Occupied lives: the risk of forcible transfer of Palestinians in Hebron (Médecins Sans Frontières, Aug. 2024) [text]

Protecting the right to adequate food and saving lives in the Gaza Strip: Briefing note on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (FAO, Aug. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Considerations for a Middle Eastern Convention to Ensure the Human Rights of Regional Refugees," Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 57 (2024) [full-text]

"Food insecurity amongst asylum seekers and people without status in Israel," Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, Latest Articles, 12 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"Palestinian Refugees in Gaza: The UNRWA and Beyond," Law and Justice Review, no. 28 (July 2024) [full-text]

"Refuge in the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean: Spaces of containment or places of choice?," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 14 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"Sectarianism, indiscriminate violence and displacement in the Syrian Regime’s Civil War strategy," Conflict, Security & Development, vol. 24, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

"Shrinking reconstruction space in the Gaza Strip: rebuilding after the 2021 and 2022 wars," Conflict, Security & Development, vol. 24, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

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