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Western Sahara

Click on the image above to view a larger map of Western Sahara.

This resource page highlights FMO digital library documents and web resources that may help to shed light on the complexities of Western Sahara.

Research Guides

• Crivello, Gina. Chatty, Dawn. “Lessons Learned Report: Children and Adolescents in Sahrawi and Afghan Refugee Households” (July 2005)
• Crivello, Gina. Fiddian, Elena. Chatty, Dawn. “Lessons Learned Report: The Transnationalisation of Care: Sahrawi Refugee Children in a Spanish Host Program” (December 2005)
• Van Brunt Smith, Danielle. “FMO research guide: Western Sahara” (August 2004)

Images

• Haugen, Heidi. FMO photograph gallery: Refugees from Western Sahara (August 2006)
• Van Brunt Smith, Danielle. FMO photograph gallery: Refugees from Western Sahara (August 2004)

Documents/Journal Articles

Selected full-text documents (for more, search in the Digital Library)

• Dukic, Natali and Thierry, Alain , “Saharawi refugees: life after the camps”, Forced Migration Review, no. 2, pp. 18-21 (1998)
• Farah, Randa, “Western Sahara and Palestine: shared refugee experiences”, Forced Migration Review, no. 16, pp. 20-23 (2003)
• Joffe, George, The International Court of Justice and the Western Sahara
  dispute (1986)
• Mace, Colin, The conflict in the Western Sahara: history, developments and future (1985)

Web Catalogue

Western Sahara (highlighted in red) in Northern Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Mauritania and Morocco.

Selected web-based information resources (for more, search in the Web Catalogue)

• Les atteintes aux droits de l'homme perpétrées à l'encontre de la population Sahraouie au Sahara Occidental et au Maroc (Collectif d'initiatives pour la connaissance du Sahara Occidental)
• MINURSO
• Western Sahara weekly news (Association de soutien à un référendum libre et régulier au Sahara Occidental)

For more country of origin information, browse through country profile resources in the Web Catalogue.

Relevant Organizations

For more, search in the FMO Organizations Directory.

• Association de soutien à un référendum libre et régulier au Sahara Occidental (ARSO)
• Collectif d'initiatives pour la connaissance du Sahara Occidental
• Saharan Studies Programme, University of East Anglia
• Hammada (Associazione di solidarietà con il popolo Saharawi)