14 January 2026

Regional Focus: MENA

Opportunity:

Seminar: The Anatomy of Displacement, Copenhagen, 28 January 2026 [info]
- See related report below.

Short pieces:

Another Brick in the Wall: Israel’s Seizure of UNRWA Facilities in East Jerusalem (EJIL: Talk Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

Ten Years Later: The Impact of Sudanese Deportations from Jordan (RLI Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Reports: 

The Anatomy of Displacement: Displacement is a strategy, not a humanitarian side effect of a conflict (Danish Institute for International Studies, Dec. 2025) [text]

UNHCR cash assistance for Syrian returnees 2025 (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"The Consequences and Prospects of Israel’s Ban of UNRWA," Cairo Review of Global Affairs, no. 53 (Winter 2025) [full-text]

"Cooperation within Reason: Tunisia’s Approach to Asylum and Readmission," European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 26, no. 2 (June 2024) [open access]
- Note: This article was not open access when the journal issue was initially published.

"The Elusive 'Collectivised Refugee Protection': The Case of the EU-Egypt Migration Cooperation," European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 26, no. 2 (June 2024) [open access]
- Note: This article was not open access when the journal issue was initially published.

"Enjeux et limites des catégorisations dans le contexte des migrations forcées. L’exemple des réfugiés palestiniens et syriens au Liban depuis 2011," Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 41, nos. 2&3 (2025) [open access]

"The Influence of Diplomatic and Foreign Policy Considerations in the Making of Migration and Asylum Policy in Morocco," European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 26, no. 2 (June 2024) [open access]
- Note: This article was not open access when the journal issue was initially published.

"Learning from Palestinian refugees: decolonizing knowledge and practice in social work," Critical and Radical Social Work: An international journal, vol. 13, no. 4 (2025) [open access

"Making Rafha: explaining the establishment of Saudi Arabia’s first and only refugee camp," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 26 Dec. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Iraqis.

"Who gets to see the sea? Stratified displacement, privilege, and the optics of escape in Lebanon," Migration Studies, vol. 14, no. 1 (March 2026) [open access]

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