Sahrawi refugees

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2014) The Ideal Refugees Gender, Islam and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival. Syracuse, NY ... 

Keywords encampment, local integration. Middle East, North Africa, Palestinians, Sahrawis, Iraqis, refugees, forced migration, internally... 

Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, and Kuwait). The causes of forced displacement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have included colonial experiences (as in the case of Palestinians expelled from the territory which became Israel), post-colonial contexts (such as Sahrawi and Kurdish refugees), civil war (Lebanese refugees), and conflict and post-conflict situations (Iraqi refugees). Alongside experiences of internal displacement, the region has also witnessed intersecting processes of forced displacement and forced sedentaiization of mobile and nomadic populations for whom movement and mobility are central parts of their lives and livelihoods. 

Over two-thirds of the world s refugees are trapped in protracted refugee situations, with key cases characterizing the MENA region Palestinians displaced since the 1940s Kurds originating fiom Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran and the Sahrawi, who are identified by UNHCR as one of the most protracted refiigee situations worldwide and correspond to... 

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2011) Protracted Sahrawi Displacement Challenges and Opportunities beyond Encampmenf. Policy Briefing 7. Oxford Refugee Studies Centre. May. 

Eiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2012) Invisible Refugees and/or Overlapping Refugeedom Protecting Sahrawis and Palestinians Displaced by the 2011 Libyan Uprising. International Journal of Refugee Law 24(2)(May) 263-93. 

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