Gideon Mwawasi
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The word “catastrophic” falls short of describing the state of Gaza's health sector amid Israel’s “war of annihilation” against Palestinians, says Munir al-Bursh, the director-general of the enclave's Health Ministry.

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March 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Where does Israel hold Palestinians detained from Gaza?

More than 10,000 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank are held in Israeli jails, as well as thousands more from Gaza, says the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and other orgs.

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February 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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🚨BREAKING: The Real Impact of the US Suspension on Humanitarian Aid🚨

Our survey results are out and the numbers are alarming.

Read the full results⬇️

🔗https://www.icvanetwork.org/uploads/2025/02/Impact-of-US-Funding-Suspension-Survey-Results-ICVA.pdf

#AidAtRisk #StopWorkOrder
February 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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🚨 New newsletter: Inklings explores how aid works. Today: Aid worker attacks, and reflections on dependency from an NGO head who once relied on aid. ⬇️
Inklings | Thoughts on aid dependency amid the Trump chaos
Aid worker attacks, political and donor headwinds, and reflections on dependency from an NGO head who once relied on aid.
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February 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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With wars raging in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, many assume climate adaptation takes a backseat in conflict zones. But new research finds that strengthening institutions and local ownership of climate finance can improve resilience. https://buff.ly/42Jedsg
February 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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“Gross Domestic Product numbers are not adjusted because governments don’t like them. The same principle should apply to humanitarian appeals.” Crunching the numbers on prioritisation and boundary-setting: ⬇️
In numbers we trust: How “prioritisation” makes humanitarian numbers murky
How come there are more conflicts, more people displaced, more severe crises, yet the UN says the number of people who need aid has fallen?
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February 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The Health Ministry in Gaza said that 572 fatalities were added to the overall death toll from Israeli attacks after their data was verified by the judicial committee.

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February 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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New paper (*explosion-emoji-bam!-pow!*) forthcoming with the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: we test whether granting welfare access to refugees changes people's attitudes towards refugee migration. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...
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January 15, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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New article in the Forced Migration Studies Blog! "Building peace together: Displaced people’s collective contribution to mental well-being and peaceful coexistence in Kakuma" by Nadine Segadlo, Wanjira Maina and Abubakar Rugamba.

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January 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Happy that this piece (with J.T. Arrighi), is now available Open Access in Comparative Migration Studies: comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.... We provide a theoretical introduction to a multidisciplinary collection of articles on the implementation gap in citizenship policy.
January 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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What can help displaced people to perceive & relate to their environment more positively?

Join the @EUI_EU Migration Working Group to discuss two different studies with policy recommendations in relation to displaced people.

🗓️19 November
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The lived realities of refugees: Between external perception and aesthetic needs
What can help displaced people to perceive and relate to their environment more positively?
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November 18, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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Published in 2021: D. Stockemer, D. Halikiopoulou, and T. Vlandas. “`Birds of a Feather'? Assessing The Prevalence of Anti-Immigration Attitudes Among the Far Right Electorate”. In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47.15 (2021), pp. 3409-3436.
September 26, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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I have a new article just published on climate migration in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. It is available here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Preparing for climate migration and integration: a policy and research agenda
In this paper I review recent research on climate migration, including estimates of the numbers of future migrants owing to climate change. I introduce a typology of climate migration including str...
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December 18, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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🌟 New publication in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies! 🌟

Marie Lunau and I introduce the concept of ‘colonial surveillance’ as a tool for analysing contemporary regulatory practices within queer asylum.

The article is #OpenAccess and you can read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Coloniality In queer asylum: towards theorising ‘colonial surveillance’ and its resistances
This article introduces the concept of ‘colonial surveillance’ as a tool for analysing contemporary regulatory practices within queer asylum. Based on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork with que...
doi.org
January 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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What does participatory philanthropy look like in practice?

This article discusses the process of setting up the Asia Pacific Network of Refugees (APNOR) pooled fund for #refugee-led organisations in the region: www.fmreview.org/financing-displacement-response/gillman-wazefadost-kamara-poots/
Participatory philanthropy in Asia-Pacific – a case study of an RLO-to-RLO fund - Forced Migration Review
What does participatory philanthropy look like in practice? This article discusses the process of setting up the Asia Pacific Network of Refugees (APNOR) pooled fund for refugee-led organisations in t...
www.fmreview.org
January 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM