Migrations in Jordan

Jalal Al Husseini is a political scientist and associate research fellow at the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) in Amman, Jordan. He is co-editor of the book Les Palestiniens entre État et Diaspora: Le temps des incertitudes (2015).Norig Neveu is a research fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, France. She is a member of several international programmes on refugees and migration in the Middle East, including ANR Lajeh and H2020 MAGYC.Valentina Napolitano is a research fellow at the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) in Amman, Jordan. She has co-edited the book Violence et militantisme: Parcours de militants dans le monde arabe, (2017).

With its long history of receiving and settling migrant populations, Jordan sheds important light on key issues around forced migration in the Middle East. Yet very little scholarship has been devoted to analysing the policies and strategies that Jordan has used as a host country. This book is an original study of the processes of reception and integration in Jordan. Part One investigates the criteria for integration and exclusion imposed by Jordan and international humanitarian organisations on different groups of refugees. This section covers the policies surrounding access to education, health, social services and work, and the economic and political factors that drive them. Part Two analyses how state policy impacts the solidarity networks between different migrant communities and examines the different political, social, religious and family networks that are set up in camps and urban settings. Part Three turns to how migrants shape the Jordanian cityscape and geography and contribute to the cities that host them. Examining diverse groups of refugees, from the 1948 Palestinian refugees to the Syrians arriving after 2011, and smaller but rising numbers from Sudan and Yemen, this book is the first to study the long-term impact of multiple immigration flows on Jordanian society and will advance discussion on migration across disciplines.

Offers a country-based analysis of forced migration through a multidisciplinary approach

Notes on Contributors.Acknowledgments.Notes on Transliteration.Introduction: Jordan, conflicts and migrations.Rethinking host policies and settlement strategies from a long-term and multiscale perspective.Part 1 -. Host authorities and international organization policies.1.1. Beyond Citizenship:Unpacking Jordan's Relationship with Palestinian Protracted Refugees.1.2. Sacrosanct Rights, National Interests and Insecure Status: Governing Ex-Gazans in Jordan.1.3. Non-reception policies and restricted humanitarian assistance: the case of Yemeni refugees in Jordan.1.4. Host state policies and the changing role of social networks for Syrian refugees in Jordan.Part 2 -. Urban dynamics, intermingling and space production.2.5. Questing for Land: Chechen Villages in the Shaping of Transjordan, an Overview.2.6. The Creation of Syrian Refugee Camps in Jordan: Contextual Factors.2.7. Social Cohesion Through the Housing of Syrian Refugees. within Jordanian Homes: NRC Shelter Program in the 'Irbid Governorate (2013- 2015)2.8. Syrian refugee settlement in 'Irbid and urban fragmentation. A case study of Hayy al-Afrah and its surroundings.Part 3 - Reconfiguration in exile: solidarity networks and humanitarianism.3.9. Displacing female labour - a gendered perspective on transnational families during the Syrian conflict3.10. Hosting Syrian refugees in Jordan: refugee-led humanitarianism and national response.3.11. Post-2014 Christian Iraqis Refugees: Reconfiguration of Faith-based Assistance in Jordan.3.12. Youth-Oriented Spaces in Amman: Inclusion of National and Refugee Youth.Conclusion.Index.