Regional Focus: MENA

Short pieces:

Egypt: Refugees, Asylum Seekers Arrested, Deported - Amend New Asylum Law in Line with International Standards (HRW, July 2026) [text]

Lebanon: Israel radically expands use of unlawful mass ‘evacuation’ orders and commits war crime of unlawful transfer (Amnesty International, June 2026) [text]

Libya: Anti-Migrant Rhetoric Fuels Abuses (HRW, July 2026) [text]

Refugee-led organisations and Lebanon’s displacement crisis (ODI Insights, June 2026) [text]

Regional Escalation in the Middle East: 10 Things to Know (IOM, June 2026) [text]

Stuck between borders: The power of bureaucratic ambiguity (Border Criminologies Blog, ) [text]

- Focuses on the Bahrain-Saudi border.

When Return Becomes Rejection: Syria’s Hidden Recognition Gap (Refugees International, June 2026) [text]

Reports:

Egypt Vulnerability Assessment for Refugees (EVAR) 2025 (UNHCR & WFP, April 2026) [text]

- See also summary and Arabic version.

Home, But Not Whole: The Fragile Return and Reintegration of Syrian Returnees (International Rescue Committee, July 2026) [text]

Inter-Agency Refugee Protection Overview for the Middle East Situation (UNHCR et al., June 2026) [text]

Life after Forcible Transfer: Palestinian Household Conditions, Needs, and Future Outlook in the West Bank (West Bank Protection Consortium, June 2026) [text via NRC]

Reconsidering ‘Home’: Aspirations and Intentions of Syrians in Sweden in the Context of Syrian Political Transition (IOM, July 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Syrian Refugees in Jordan: Demographics, Labor Market Outcomes, and Wellbeing through 2025, Special Working Paper, no. 8 (Economic Research Forum, June 2026) [access via LinkedIn]

Under-capacity and out of time: 1,000 days of limited aid access and humanitarian disaster in Gaza (Action for Humanity, July 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Crossing borders without papers: how food insecurity fuels irregular migration in the MENA region," Comparative Migration Studies, 22 June 2026 [open access]

"Gazans: Perpetual Refugees on the Run," Chapter in Visas in Migration and Asylum Law: The Key that Opens the Door (Routledge, June 2026) [open access]

"The Waiting Class: Privilege, Refuge, and the Postponed Return of Beirut’s Wealthier Syrians," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 24 June 2026 [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (8 June 2026)