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Spatiality of refugee camps in Jordan: Tracing the evolution of spatial realities, the case of Marka Camp, Jordan.

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In Jordan, Palestine refugee camps have turned by time into socioeconomic centers of gravity and cores of urban evolution. Yet, such position is not instantaneous. Amongst various reasons, it can be related (according to this paper) to a distinctive institutional climate that has been co-produced, by the refugees and the hosting country. In Jordan, where many Palestine refugees enjoy full citizenship while preserving their status as “refugees that have the right of return”, they as well as the hosting government (represented by Department of Palestinians Affairs/DPA), have been faced with the dilemma of maintaining the anti-durability discourse (a discourse committed by both parties), while allowing the camp to pay its spatial development share to the hosting system. This paper investigates the evolution of the camps’ governing rules set and applied by the government of Jordan, and to confront it with the spatial evolution of the camps and their surroundings. By performing this exercise, it is expected to further understand the agency of transient habitations (namely refugee camps) in the regional development of its hosting spatial systems. The research operationalizes Marka camp in Jordan as a case study. Marka Camp is one of the six "emergency" camps erected in 1968 to shelter 15,000 Palestine refugees and displaced persons who left the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Nowadays, the camp shelters more than 50,000 refugees on the same area of land. The camp is located in Rusaifeh, a city in Zarqa Governorate in Jordan. Together with Amman and Zarqa, Russeifa is part of a larger metropolitan area that acts as a home to more than half of Jordan’s businesses. The paper aims to confront the historical evolution of the camp (historical and vertical growth, as well as land use evolution) with the development of the governing regime of Jordan between 1967 until 1995.
Boek: Displacement & Domesticity - Working Paper Series
Pagina's: 149 - 157
Aantal pagina's: 9
ISBN:978-9-4927-8004-1
Jaar van publicatie:2019
Toegankelijkheid:Closed