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May 2013
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FMR 39 Protection for migrants after the...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Irregular and mixed migration is still of great concern in post-revolutionary Libya, made more complex by the securitisation of border control issues and the inherent challenges of an interim government consolidating its authority. 
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