Silvia Ulloa

Date of Award

2013

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Baram, Uzi

Keywords

Anthropology, Refugees, Jordan, Iraq

Area of Concentration

Anthropology, Gender Studies

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the situation of Iraqi refugees in Amman, Jordan. It seeks to illustrate a distinct refugee community and its experience in a host nation, as well as analyze the historical and political context that forces the Iraqi refugee community in Jordan into poverty, psychological and material discomfort, and keeps them in limbo, neither able to integrate into the host country nor move to third countries for permanent settlement. I look at the region's history, which is tightly interconnected and has ultimately had the effect of making efficient policy for refugees a political impossibility due to the sensitive issue of Palestinian refugees and accompanying xenophobia by Jordan's native tribal population. Additionally, my thesis further illustrates the different experiences faced by Iraqis across the economic class spectrum, where wealthier Iraqis are able to purchase residency permits while middle- and lower-class Iraqis are forced into a downward spiral into poverty due to their inability to work legally or seek temporary residency.

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