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Edited by Husseini, Jalal Al; Edited by Napolitano Valentina; Edited by Neveu, Norig

Jordan currently hosts the second largest percentage of registered refugees in the world: three million out of its eleven million inhabitants. Its experience in hosting migrants and refugees precedes its independence in 1946, with the arrival of Circassians, Chechens, and Armenians from the late 19th century. Jordan thus constitutes a unique observatory for reception policies and long-term settlement of different migrant groups.

Based on original empirical and archival material, this volume focuses on migrations caused by conflicts, wars, and crises underscoring their articulation with longstanding human mobility. It sheds light on the cumulative and processual dimensions of Jordan’s reception policies and migrants’ settlement strategies. It identifies the multiple actors involved in the management of migrants and, conversely, the latter’s contribution to the Jordanian social, economic, political, and urban fabric.

The first part of the volume examines the policies adopted by the Jordanian authorities and international organizations to regulate access to basic services and to the labour market, and explores the economic and political factors underlying them. The second part analyzes the effects of Jordan’s policies on the territorial distribution and settlement of migrants. How have these policies, combined with the adaptation strategies of migrants contributed to shaping new urban spaces? The third part focuses on capacity of the migrants to activate, establish, (re)build, and intersect different kinds of solidarity networks within the context of protracted displacement.

Table of contents:

Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Notes onTransliteration.

Introduction: Jordan, conflicts and migrations.
Rethinking hostpolicies and settlement strategies from a long-term and multiscale perspective.

Part1 –. Hostauthorities and international organization policies.
1.1. Beyond Citizenship:
UnpackingJordan’s Relationship with Palestinian Protracted Refugees.
1.2. Sacrosanct Rights, National Interestsand Insecure Status: Governing Ex-Gazans in Jordan.
1.3. Non-reception policies and restrictedhumanitarian assistance: the case of Yemeni refugees in Jordan.
1.4. Host state policies and the changingrole of social networks for Syrian refugees in Jordan.

Part2 –. Urbandynamics, intermingling and space production.
2.5. Questing for Land: Chechen Villagesin the Shaping of Transjordan, an Overview.
2.6. The Creation of Syrian Refugee Camps inJordan: ContextualFactors.
2.7. Social Cohesion Through the Housing ofSyrian Refugees. within JordanianHomes: NRC ShelterProgram in the ”Irbid Governorate (2013- 2015)
2.8. Syrian refugee settlement in ”Irbid andurban fragmentation. A case study ofHayy al-Afrah and its surroundings.

Part3 – Reconfigurationin exile: solidarity networks and humanitarianism.
3.9. Displacing female labour – a genderedperspective on transnational families during the Syrian conflict
3.10. Hosting Syrian refugees in Jordan:refugee-led humanitarianism and national response.
3.11. Post-2014 Christian Iraqis Refugees: Reconfigurationof Faith-based Assistance in Jordan.
3.12. Youth-Oriented Spaces in Amman: Inclusion ofNational and Refugee Youth.

Conclusion.
Index.

Review quote:
Migrations in Jordan is an outstanding contribution to the Refugee Studies literature. Localising the transnational, this groundbreaking collection of interdisciplinary essays provides invaluable insights not only into processes of refugee-making, but also into the ways refugees have shaped, and continue to do so, Jorda