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Refugees and Migrants at Sea: Another View from the Middle East and North Africa Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2017

Melissa Phillips
Melissa Phillips*
Affiliation:
Danish Refugee Council Middle East and North Africa regional office, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne (email: phim@unimelb.edu.au)
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Migrants at Sea: What Role for International Law?
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 110 , 2016 , pp. 169 - 173
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

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References

1 Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Syria: Country Information 2015, at http://www.internal-displacement.org/middle-east-and-north-africa/syria.

2 UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Syria Regional Refugee Response, at http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php. The term “refugees from Syria” is used deliberately instead of “Syrian refugees” as it includes a number of Palestinian refugees from Syria who were already in the country prior to the outbreak of conflict.

3 UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Refugees/Migrants Response – Mediterranean, at http://data.unhcr.org/mediterranean/regional.php.

4 Oxfam, et al., Right to a Future: Empowering Refugees from Syria and Host Governments to Face a Long- Term Crisis 4 (2015), at https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/syria-refugees-right-future.

5 For more on this, see Tania Karas, Refugees Unwelcome: Border Closures and Freezing Temperatures, IRIN News (Jan. 25, 2016), at http://newirin.irinnews.org/border-closures-and-freezing-temperatures.

6 European Council Press Release, EU-Turkey Statement (Mar. 18, 2016), at http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2016/03/18-eu-turkey-statement.

7 For more detailed trend analysis on a monthly basis, see Danish Refugee Council, Where We Work: Middle East and North Africa, at https://drc.ngo/where-we-work/middle-east-and-north-africa.

8 Danish Refugee Council, Middle East and North Africa Regional Report (2016), at https://drc.ngo/media/2126540/drc-going-to-europe-report-pdf.pdf.

9 UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Seven Factors Behind Movement of Syrian Refugees to Europe (Sept. 22, 2015), at http://www.unhcr.org/news/briefing/2015/9/560523f26/seven-factors-behind-movement-syrian-refugees-europe.html.

10 UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR Survey Finds Afghan and Syrian Refugees Arriving to Greece Are Fleeing Conflict and Violence (Feb. 23, 2016), at http://www.unhcr.org/news/briefing/2016/2/56cc4b876/unhcrsurvey-finds-afghan-syrian-refugees-arriving-greece-fleeing-conflict.html.

11 Uzay Bulut, Turkey: The Business of Refugee Smuggling, Sex Trafficking, Gatestone Inst., at http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7756/turkey-refugees-sex-trafficking.

12 See Bram Frouws, Melissa Phillips, Ashraf Hassan & Mirjam Twigt, Getting to Europe the “Whatsapp” Way: The Use of ICT in Contemporary Mixed Migration Flows to Europe (Danish Refugee Council, RMMS Briefing Paper 2, June 2016).

13 Melissa Phillips & Antje Missbach, Protecting Refugees in Transit, Asia & Pac. Pol’y Soc’y, at http://www.policyforum.net/protecting-refugees-in-transit.

14 Talent Beyond Borders, at http://www.talentbeyondboundaries.org.