from the editors
As this issue goes to print, the so-called Arab Spring continues to reverberate locally, regionally and geopolitically. It started in early 2011 and spread across North Africa, with well-documented consequences far further afield in Africa and Europe. The conflict in Libya in particular confronted aid and protection actors with complex situations where people were moving for diverse reasons and facing distinct needs.
This issue of FMR reflects on some of the experiences, challenges and lessons of the Arab Spring in North Africa, the implications of which resonate far wider than the region itself.
Positive lessons from the Arab Spring - António Guterres
Broadening our perspective - William Lacy Swing
Migration and revolution - Hein de Haas and Nando Sigona
Bordering on a crisis - Guido Ambroso
Legal protection frameworks - Tamara Wood
The bittersweet return home - Asmita Naik and Frank Laczko
The reintegration programme for Bangladeshi returnees - Anita J Wadud
Local hosting and transnational identity - Katherine E Hoffman
Resettlement is needed for refugees in Tunisia - Amaya Valcárcel
Dispossession and displacement in Libya - Rhodri C Williams
We are not all Egyptian - Martin Jones
Protecting and assisting migrants caught in crises - Mohammed Abdiker and Angela Sherwood
Looking beyond legal status to human need - Tarak Bach Baouab, Hernan del Valle, Katharine Derderian and Aurelie Ponthieu
From commitment to practice: the EU response - Madeline Garlick and Joanne van Selm
The first safe country - Raffaela Puggioni
Protection for migrants after the Libyan Revolution - Samuel Cheung
An asylum spring in the new Libya? - Jean-François Durieux, Violeta Moreno-Lax and Marina Sharpe
Newly recognised humanitarian actors - James Shaw-Hamilton
Migrants caught in crisis - Brian Kelly
Proud to be Tunisian - Elizabeth Eyster, Houda Chalchoul and Carole Lalève