Lead researchers: Dr Wolfgang Stojetz, Dr Hadi Jaafar
Partner: International Security and Development Center (ISDC)
Duration: December 2023 – March 2025
Country: Jordan
Jordan hosts over 700,000 refugees, mostly from Syria, as well as large groups from Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Most live outside refugee camps, and over half are children. This research focuses on Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Jordan. It examines the long-term gendered impacts of conflict exposure in refugees’ origin countries on their social behaviour and economic wellbeing in the host country, Jordan. It aims to assess how the intersection of violent conflict, gender, and forced displacement shapes people’s behaviour and wellbeing in the host country. The team are looking at the impact of external factors on the one hand, and individual and household characteristics on the other.
The researchers are undertaking an observational study. The team will integrate existing survey data on the Jordanian refugee population with external information on conflict and environmental conditions at refugees’ places of origin and destination, including satellite imagery. Building on this, the project will perform descriptive, comparative, and predictive analyses, alongside causal, mediation, and moderation analyses.
This project is one of several focused on women and girls in cross-border conflict contexts. The main output will be a research manuscript for submission for publication in a peer-reviewed journal or as an XCEPT research report.
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