Migrations in Jordan. Reception Policies and Settlement Strategies: Reception Policies and Settlement Strategies

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Jordan currently hosts the second largest percentage of registered refugees in theworld: three million out of its eleven million inhabitants. Its experience in hostingmigrants and refugees precedes its independence in 1946, with the arrival ofCircassians, Chechens, and Armenians from the late 19th century. Jordan thusconstitutes a unique observatory for reception policies and long-term settlement ofdifferent migrant groups.Based on original empirical and archival material, this volume focuses on migrationscaused by conflicts, wars, and crises underscoring their articulation with longstandinghuman mobility. It sheds light on the cumulative and processual dimensionsof Jordan's reception policies and migrants' settlement strategies. It identifies themultiple actors involved in the management of migrants and, conversely, the latter'scontribution to the Jordanian social, economic, political, and urban fabric.The first part of the volume examines the policies adopted by the Jordanianauthorities and international organizations to regulate access to basic services and tothe labour market, and explores the economic and political factors underlying them.The second part analyzes the effects of Jordan's policies on the territorial distributionand settlement of migrants. How have these policies, combined with the adaptationstrategies of migrants contributed to shaping new urban spaces? The third partfocuses on capacity of the migrants to activate, establish, (re)build, and intersectdifferent kinds of solidarity networks within the context of protracted displacement.