Discussions and Policy Implications

Abstract

The previous chapters analyzed the rights, safety, and identity (RSI) of refugees in the context of the MENA region. Crucial to these chapters’ investigations are issues covering refugees and refugee children in camps: their safety, their rights and protection available and accessible to them, protection gaps, and instruments of their protection. Having analyzed several regional and thematic topics related to the protection of refugees in the Middle East and North Africa, this chapter returns to a critical analysis of the theoretical approach to RSI proposed in this book. This analysis identifies common threads connecting the themes of geopolitics, refugee camps, safety and humanitarianism, protection, the refugee regime, and Arab uprisings discussed in the previous chapters. This chapter also encapsulates an assessment of refugee policies, the refugee and migration regime, protection instruments, and their effectiveness in terms of protecting refugee safety, rights, and identity. It further establishes how the suggested arguments have been addressed and objectives achieved through the empirical data included in this book. The result is a set of policy recommendations for policy makers, researchers, academics, and other decision makers within the refugee regime.