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2014-04-14
Fråga-svar
Libyen. Statslösa palestinier
Fråga:
1. Hur är situationen rent allmänt för statslösa palestinier i Libyen?
2. Utsätts de för skyddsgrundande handling?
Svar:
Sammaställning av information
US Department of State (2014):
Stateless Persons
Laws afford the opportunity to gain nationality. By law citizenship derives from birth in the country or from a citizen parent, and there are naturalization provisions for noncitizens. The Qadhafi regime, however, revoked the citizenship of some inhabitants of the Saharan interior of the country, including many Tebu and some Tuareg, after the regime returned the Aouzou strip to Chad. As a result many nomadic and settled stateless persons lived in the country. (s. 18
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UNHCR (2013):
Arab asylum seekers, such as Iraqis, Palestinians, and Syrians are an exception. They tend to arrive in families and are better integrated into Libyan society, given shared language and religion, which allows them to create relatively good living conditions in the country. (s.
87) ---
Palestinian asylum seekers arrived in two waves in Libya.
There are those that arrived recently from Syria, as they had been living there as refugees, and those that fled from the Palestinian territories in the 90’s due to the presence of Hamas in the Gaza strip (or more generally, the conflict with Israel). (s. 88)
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Iraqis and longer-term Palestinians tend to be in high skilled and well paid jobs whereas Syrians and newly arrived Palestinians often do not possess the same skill level, making them less competitive on the labour market. (s. 91)
Arab asylum seekers in Libya (such as the Iraqis, Palestinians, and Syrians) tend to be relatively well integrated given the fact that they share language and religion with Libyans. Moreover, Iraqis and Palestinians that came from Palestinian territories in the 90’s (as opposed to the newly arrived Palestinians from Syria) are generally well educated and occupy high-skilled jobs, such as working as university professors in some cases.
Some of them were also registered as refugees by the UNHCR under the former regime. (s. 91)
While Syrians, and Palestinian newcomers from Syria, share some of these characteristics, they tend to be in low skilled jobs and have fewer links to Libyan society.
Despite this, levels of integration for Syrian asylum seekers remain quite good, mainly due to sympathy from Libyans for the Syrian struggle. Palestinian newcomers are less integrated, mainly due to a lack of appreciation for the concessions that were given to Palestinians under the former regime. Nonetheless, the relatively good levels of integration for Arab asylum seekers in the country makes them far less vulnerable when compared to their African counterparts. (s. 91)
Rapporten finns i Lifos, nr 31467,
http://www.refworld.org/docid/52b43f594.html
Inter Press Service (2012):
Since Libya’s revolution, property disputes have emerged as a primary threat to Libya’s national security. Although mostly relevant to Libyans, the crisis has hit the Palestinian refugee community hard. With more Palestinians arriving from Syria, it underscores the heightened vulnerability of their ‘guest’ status in the face of future government legislation.
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Many Palestinians who managed to return to Libya found they had lost their relative safety of subsidised homes and jobs, exacerbating their insecure status and displacement.
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“A few individuals I spoke to claimed they were being attacked by pro-regime forces for not engaging in armed activities, or being attacked by the anti-regime movement because of an assumed association with the pro-regime,”
she says.
The Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd (2014):
Palestinians in Libya today, thought to number over 50,000, are in a highly insecure situation.
Länkar till rapporter för vidare läsning:
IRIN från 2012, Analysis: The Middle East's "invisible refugees"
http://www.irinnews.org/report/94762/analysis-the-middle-east-s-invisible- refugees
Migrationsverket (fråga- svar), 2011 i Lifos, document nr. 26158,
http://lifosintern.migrationsverket.se/dokument?documentSummaryId=26158
UNHCR, 2011-11-01, Invisible refugees: protecting Sahrawis and Palestinians displaced by the 2011 Libyan uprising,
http://www.ecoi.net/file_upload/2016_1320954692_4eb945c39.pdf
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Källförteckning
The Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd., Middle East and North Africa politics: Syrian conflict worsens the plight o, 2014-02-04, (Hämtad från prenumerationsdatabasen Factiva 2014-04-15)
Inter Press Service, Palestinians Live on the Edge in New Libya, 2012-08-
23, http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/08/palestinians-live-on-the-edge-in-new-libya/ (Hämtad 2014-08-23)
UNHCR, Mixed Migration: Libya at the Crossroads - Mapping of Migration Routes from Africa to Europe and Drivers of Migration in Post-revolution Libya, 2013-12-13, Lifos (dokumentnr. 31467)
US Department of State,
2013 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – Libya. 2014-02-28, Lifos (dokumentnr. 32046)
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