ABSTRACT
In the winter of 2018, Tel Aviv’s streets and squares were occupied by two large protests organized by one of the most destitute population groups in the city. At the end of February and again at the end of March, thousands of African asylum seekers, supported by Israeli residents, demonstrated against Israel’s plan to deport many of them in a government operation scheduled to begin in early April. Today, as the world becomes increasingly urbanized and the extent of forced displacement worldwide reaches the unprecedented number of more than 70 million people (UNHCR, 2019a), the subjects of urbanization and refuge become inherently linked. Egypt has long been a destination and transit country for forced migrants, most of whom live in urban areas, and Cairo has become a regional hub of one of the largest and most diverse populations of urban refugees in the world.
