DISPLACEMENT & DOMESTICITY SINCE 1945. REFUGEES, MIGRANTS, EXPATS MAKING HOMES

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.status: publishe

Displacement and Domesticity Since 1945 - TEACHING TOOL

This open-source teaching tool is intended as a starting point for scholars working on the history and theory of displacement and domesticity. The document tackles the importance of the theoretical and discursive intersection of displacement and domesticity; provoked participants to reflect on their role as producers and consumers of knowledge; interrogated the ways in which concepts and modes of knowledge are transferred and exchanged among scholars as well as among broader publics; and, considered the potential for the generative and the generous in this emerging scholarship. The following document is thus neither conclusive nor comprehensive, but reflects the outcomes of the workshop. Users of the teaching tool are invited to tailor it. We are grateful to those who would like to make use of, share and further develop this teaching tool, who would thereby keep it alive and add to the collective endeavour of its creation. At the same time, we are grateful if you cite this source file: Displacement & Domesticity International Conference (2019). Displacement & Domesticity Teaching Tool. Retrieved from A2I Research Group KULeuven * The Teaching Tool was developed collaboratively in a one-day workshop for doctoral students as part of the European Architectural History Network themed conference, Displacement and Domesticity: Refugees, Migrants, and Expats Making Homes (27-29 March 2019, Brussels).status: Published onlin