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Protracted Hosting in Jordan: Policy, Identity, and the Gaza Effect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2026

Amal Shaqo
Amal Shaqo*
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Political Science, University of Guelph - Guelph Campus , Canada
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Email: shaqoamal04@gmail.com
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Middle East Studies in Action
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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , June 2026 , pp. 85 - 86
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A research poster titled Protracted Hosting in Jordan: Policy, Identity, and the Gaza Effect. It features seven text sections, a photo of three individuals, and a research timeline. See long description.
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The poster is organized into several blocks. At the top left, the author is listed as Amal Shaqo from The University of Guelph. At the top right, it mentions the M E S A Undergraduate Research Workshop. Below the title, the Jordanian and Palestinian flags are displayed.

Section 01 Introduction: States Jordan hosts one of the world's largest per-capita refugee populations and presents a thesis on how Palestinian life shifts from camp-based survival to civic inclusion across three generations.

Section 02 Objective: Aims to examine how three generations of refugees navigated identity and integration from 1948 to the present.

Section 03 Methodology: Uses a qualitative case study of three family narratives (Subhi, Feryal, Aya) and document analysis of U N R W A, W F P, and World Bank sources.

Section 04 Results/Findings: Details the Gaza Effect (2023-25), economic strains, and stratified rights. It breaks down the generations: Generation 1 (Subhi) focused on camp survival; Generation 2 (Feryal) moved into civil service; Generation 3 (Aya) is a fully integrated citizen with strong diasporic identity.

Section 05 Analysis: Discusses the Assistance-For-Stability Bargain and postcolonial roots of statelessness.

Section 06 Conclusion: Summarizes that integration has deepened but documentation regimes sustain tiered citizenship. It calls for predictable multi-year financing.

Section 07 Related Literature: Cites Arar (2017), Francis (2015), A C A P S (2023), and Lemberg-Pedersen et al. (2023).

A photo on the right shows Subhi Khalil, Aya Khalil, and Feryal Shaqo. At the bottom, a horizontal timeline titled Refugees and Their Impact on Jordan and Reflection On The Generational Case Study of Refugees in Jordan maps the flow from Introduction to Gaza 2023-2025, the Case Study, Post-Colonialism, and Conclusion.

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