Reading list for the refugee crisis in Libya:
We hope that this resource can serve as a starting point for anyone interested in learning more about the Libyan refugee crisis.
Articles:
People smuggling in Libya: You can’t bomb away a problem of economics, African Arguments, 25 January 2017.
UN envoy on migrants criticises ‘blindness’ of EU on Libya, Mail & Guardian, 6 July 2019.
Trading in suffering: detention, exploitation and abuse in Libya, Médecins Sans Frontières, 23 December 2019.
‘What happens to migrants forcibly returned to Libya?’, The New Humanitarian, 5 August 2020.
Amnesty urges EU to rethink Libya cooperation over refugee abuse, Al Jazeera, 24 September 2020.
‘Italy is using the pandemic to keep more migrants from its shores’, World Politics Review, 5 October 2020.
UNHCR warns 2020 risks lowest resettlement levels in recent history, UNHCR, 19 November 2020.
Reports:
Smuggling, Trafficking, and Extortion: New Conceptual and Policy Challenges on the Libyan Route to Europe, Kuschminder and Triandafyllidou, 2019.
‘Between life and death’: Refugees and migrants trapped in Libya’s cycle of abuse, Amnesty International, 2020.
The EU Trust Fund for Africa: Trapped between aid policy and migration politics, Oxfam, 29 January 2020.
‘EU: Time to review and remedy cooperation policies facilitating abuse of refugees and migrants in Libya’, 27 April 2020.
Videos:
Kidnapped, tortured and enslaved: Surviving refugee camps in Libya, DW News, 26 September 2019.
Smuggling, Trafficking & Extortion: New Conceptual & Policy Challenges on the Libyan Route to Europe, UNU Merits, 25 October 2019.
Step inside the refugee transit centre in Libya, UNHCR Canada, 7 July 2020
Podcasts:
Libya Matters, by Lawyers for Justice in Libya.