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Contained at the margins. Syrian refugees’ settlement experience in Northern Jordan

Résumé

Refugee camps cover different realities in the Middle East, from Armenian and Palestinian urbanized refugee camps located in the suburbs of the main cities towards more recent camps set up to accommodate Syrian refugees. Refugee camps tend to become permanent structures part of a containment policy developed by UNHCR and Jordanian authorities, whereas refugees tend to develop their own settlement strategy contributing to the urbanization process of the camp. This chapter analyses the evolution since 2011 of the settlement policy developed by Jordanian authorities, and more specifically the shift that occurred in 2016, with the signature of the Jordan Compact, promoting the integration of Syrian refugees and a development-oriented approach. Camp policy can be considered as a tool for Jordanians to control mobility and select the refugees who are allowed to settle in urban or rural areas. Based on interviews and mapping of families’ housing during 3 years, this chapter traces the evolution of refugees’ housing since their settlement in Jordan in two different contexts: in the refugee camp of Zaatari and in a peri-urban space in Azraq, to analyse the impact of Jordanian settlement policy in both situations.
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hal-04011646 , version 1 (02-03-2023)

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Kamel Doraï. Contained at the margins. Syrian refugees’ settlement experience in Northern Jordan. Are Knudsen; Kjersti Berg. CONTINENTAL ENCAMPMENT: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe, Berghahn Books, 2023, ⟨10.3167/9781800738447⟩. ⟨hal-04011646⟩
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