29 July 2025

Regional Focus: MENA

Short pieces:

Borders and Limitations: The IMS Blog (July 2025) [access]
- Follow link for recent posts focusing on Lebanon and Syria.

Emotional Borders: People on the move during Syria’s civil conflict (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2025) [text]

"Iran uses Israeli bombings to speed up Afghan expulsions," The New Humanitarian, 21 July 2025 [text]

Israel’s relocation plan for Palestinians and fading hopes for a ceasefire (The Conversation, July 2025) [text]
- See also related articles from AP News and CNN, and legal analyses on The Conversation (here and here), as well as on Just Security 

Navigating an Uncertain Environment: Survival Activities of Displaced Sudanese in Egypt (African Arguments, July 2025) [text]

Navigating Displacement: Sudanese Hustling in Cairo (African Arguments, July 2025) [text]

Undoing asylum: Syria after Assad and the collapse of refugee protections (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, July 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Art as a path to social inclusion: perspectives of Syrian refugees in Istanbul," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 21 July 2025 [open access]

"Circular Migration of Young Sahrawis Between the Sahrawi Refugee Camps in Algeria and Spain: The Cultural Aspects of Agency within the Precarisation of Legal Status," Migraciones, no. 63 (June 2025) [open access]

"How Turkey has governed Syrian refugees over a decade: a three-tiered class analysis," New Perspectives on Turkey, FirstView, 17 July 2025 [open access]

IPC Alert: Worst-case Scenario of Famine Unfolding in the Gaza Strip (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, July 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related articles from AP News & UN News, and commentary from The ConversationCouncil on Foreign Relations & Just Security.      

Return without guarantees: Syrian refugee return policies from neighboring countries (Access Center for Human Rights, July 2025) [access via ReliefWeb]
- Available in English and Arabic.

"Tracing Home: Knowledge Production in Multigenerational Palestinian Displacement," Journal of Migration History, vol. 11, no. 2 (July 2025) [open access]

Understanding Syrian refugee and IDP return dynamics in 2025: project concept note (UNHCR & World Bank, July 2025) [text]

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