Migrations in Jordan. Reception Policies and Settlement Strategies

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.

Tuesday, November 5 | 6 – 8 PM

at Institut français de Jordanie

Speakers :
Jalal Al Husseini, Sociologist, Associate research fellow at the French Institute of the Near East (Ifpo) and consultant.
Solenn Al Majali, Anthropologist, Post-doc fellow at the French Red Cross Foundation, Associate researcher at the French Institute of the Near East (Ifpo).
Norig Neveu, Historian, Research fellow at CNRS and the Institute of Research and Study on the Arab and Muslim Worlds (IREMAM).

Moderation :
Mariangela Gasparotto, Anthropologist, Researcher at the French Institute of the
Near East (Ifpo)