RT Article
T1 UNRWA and the Historical Evolution of Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan: Policy Mobilities and the Role of Refugees in Home-Making on the Scale of the Camp
JF Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
VO 23
IS 1
SP 39
OP 76
A1 Alqub, Heba
A2 Matar, Osaid
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1890689424
AB This article examines UNRWA policy's on-the-ground translation and its connection to the evolution of three Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, with a focus on refugees' role in shaping these policies and their physical manifestation. Thus, this manuscript connects both literatures’ policy mobilities and refugee camps to explore how policy mobility can provide an instructive lens to analyse the divergent forms of refugee camp evolution. This study argues that the same policy can produce different outcomes that are, in some ways, similar. Building on assemblage theory (Deleuze & Guattari 1987) through ethnographic fieldwork, this article focuses the study of the different actors involved in the refugee camps’ construction processes and layouts since their establishment and how they have evolved distinctively over time.
K1 Agamben’s State of Exception
K1 Assemblage Theory
K1 Home-making
K1 Jordan
K1 Palestinian Refugees
K1 Policies Mobilities
K1 Refugee Camps
K1 United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
DO 10.3366/hlps.2024.0326