Writing and Publications

Journal articles and book chapters

El-Abed, O., Jordan, Z., and Shahzadeh, Y. (Forthcoming) Youth-Oriented Spaces in Amman: Inclusion of national and refugee youth. In Neveu, N., Napolitano, V., and Hussein, J. (eds), Forced Migration, Reception Policies and Settlement Strategies in Jordan.

Jordan, Z. (2023) Refugee-refugee hosting as home in protracted urban displacement: Sudanese refugee men in Amman, Jordan. Ilcan, S., Squire, V., Shamma, Y., and Underhill, H. (eds.) Migration, Culture and Identity: Making Home Away. The Politics of Citizenship and Migration Series, Palgrave.

Jordan, Z. (2022) ‘The world we share’: everyday relations and the political consequences of refugee-refugee hosting in Amman, Jordan‘, Citizenship Studies Special Issue: Migrating through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin, Vol. 26, No. 6.

Jordan, Z. and Brun, C. (2021) ‘Vital conjunctures in compound crises: Conceptualising young people’s trajectories from education to employment in Jordan and Lebanon’, Social Sciences

Jordan, Z. (2021) ‘Book Review: Bjarnesen, J. and Turner, S. editors. 2020: Invisibility in African Displacements: From Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance’. Progress in Development Studies

Harriss, L., Parrack, C., and Jordan, Z. (2020), ‘Building safety in humanitarian programmes that support post disaster shelter self-recovery: An evidence review’, Disasters, vol. 44, Issue 2.

Reports and other publications

Jordan, Z (ed.) (2022) From education to employment? Young people’s trajectories in protracted crisis, Centre for Lebanese Studies. (Contributors:
Alexandra Kassir, Ali Najem, Amal Kaawash, Basel Al Hassan, Cathrine Brun, Dana Barqawi, Dina Batshon, Ghaith Al Baghdadi, Hala Abou Zaki, Haya Hammou, Ibrahim Abdalrazik, Israa El Hazzaam, Khaled Zahra, Hiba Yassin, Maha Shuayb, Mahmoud Hammoud, Mariam Khreibani, Mira Baassiri, Mohammad al-Bader, Mohammed Al Hajj, Mohammad Hassan Bahou, Nashwa Hammad, Nour Al Safadi, Oroub El Abed, Sabreen Abo Aloula, Samar Abdel Jaber, Sue Webb, Yasmine Shahzadah, Zoe Jordan)

Diab, J., Jordan, Z., Carver, R. (2022) The Refuge Reports: Ukraine. Institute for Migration Studies, Lebanese American University.

Jordan, Z. 2020 Everyday humanitarians : the act of refugee hosting in protracted urban displacement in Amman, Jordan. PhD Thesis, Oxford Brookes University

NRC (2014) Living conditions of displaced persons and host communities in urban Goma, DRC. Norwegian Refugee Council. November 2014.

Blogs

January 2022 Jordan: How the EU is using trade deals to curb migration, EFFEXT Project, CMI

June 2021 Being young through conflict and displacement: changing meanings of “youth” among Syrian youth in Lebanon, Youth Circulations (with Hala Abou Zaki)

June 2021 ‘One of the guys’: Hosting relationships among young Sudanese refugee men in Amman, Jordan, Youth Circulations

Nov. 2019            “Refugee hosting: solidarity networks in Amman”, Jordan INGO forum Newsletter Q3 2019, Issue 13 https://t.co/SC1zUSwdlQ?amp=1

Feb. 2019             “Who are the hosts?” ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog, https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/2019/02/12/displaced-cities-who-are-hosts/

May 2018            “Why host refugees?” CENDEP blog, http://cendep.blogspot.com/2018/05/

Sept. 2017           “Exploring refugee hosting in Jordan” CENDEP blog, http://cendep.blogspot.com/2017/09/exploring-refugee-hosting-in-jordan.html

Conference Presentations

Oct. 2020             “We have to be stuck together”: Sudanese refugee men’s hosting relationships in urban Amman, Jordan.”‘The Here and Now in Forced Migration: Everyday Intimacies, Imaginaries and Bureaucracies’, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany.

Sept. 2020           “Young, displaced and aspiring to work: navigating uncertain and shifting landscapes of opportunities and constraints in Lebanon and Jordan.” (co-presented with Cathrine Brun and Oroub el-Abed) Royal Anthropology Institute, UK

June 2020            “Collaboration, co-production and co-analysis: producing and disseminating knowledge on education and employment in protracted displacement in Lebanon and Jordan British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), Canterbury, UK* (postponed to 2021)

June 2020            “Negotiating homes: Refugee-refugee hosting as home in protracted urban displacement”. “Making Home Away” Symposium, University of Reading, UK* (cancelled due to COVID-19)

July 2018             ‘Hosting in protracted displacement’ (Co-presented with Cathrine Brun). International Association for the Study of   Forced Migration (IASFM), Thessaloniki, Greece

July 2018              ‘Hosting-refugee relationships in the city’ (Co-presented with Cathrine Brun). Refugee and Migrant Mobilities: Building solidarities across sectors and neighbourhoods in the city, University College London, UK

June 2018            ‘Hierarchies of Hospitality: Access to assistance for minority refugee groups in urban Amman’. BRISMES, London, UK

May 2018            ‘Sites of inclusion/exclusion of African-origin refugees in urban Amman: Informal workplaces and NGO community centres ‘. Crossing Borders / Crossing Disciplines: Rethinking Inclusion, Exclusion, and Human Mobility, TORCH Migration and Mobility Network and the Oxford Migration Studies Society, Oxford, UK

May 2018            ‘Why host refugees? Motivations for refugee-refugee assistance in urban Jordan’. Oxford Brookes Technology, Design, and Environment Conference, Oxford, UK

July 2017              ‘Host families and urban refugees: Alternative discourses of belonging and citizenship for forced migrants in urban Amman’. Early Career Middle Eastern Studies Research Network, University of Exeter, UK

May 2017             ‘Can guests belong? Exploring relationships between refugees and their hosts in urban Amman during protracted displacement’. Oxford Brookes Technology, Design, and Environment Conference, Oxford, UK

Work in Progress

Jordan, Z., Webb, S., Brun., C (Under review) Cheerleaders, facilitators and guides: Supporting young refugees to stay in secondary education

Jordan, Z. ‘Shaping displacement: The impact of Jordan’s durable solutions policies on Sudanese refugees in Amman, Jordan’. Refuge Special Issue: Contextualising Durable Solutions – a critical lens.

Jordan, Z. Hosting as humanitarian: Refugee-refugee humanitarianism in protracted urban displacement

Draft papers and conferences papers may be available on request.