Playing Host Since 1948: Jordan's Refugee Policies and Faith-based Charity

TY - JOUR

T1 - Playing Host Since 1948

T2 - Jordan's Refugee Policies and Faith-based Charity

AU - Gutkowski, Stacey

N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by the Social Science and Public Policy Faculty Research Fund, King’s College London (2018). Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

PY - 2022/5/31

Y1 - 2022/5/31

N2 - Since 1948, Jordan has hosted successive waves of refugees from neighboring states. Since the onset of a new refugee crisis in 2011, the evolution of Jordan’s humanitarian assemblage has provided opportunities for the marked expansion, institutionalization, and globalization of Islamic and Christian humanitarianism within Jordan. The level of international influence the Jordanian government has allowed during the crisis has helped facilitate greater religious privacy for local Islamic and Christian charitable actors to express their religious vision through their charitable work with refugees. The regime has responded by allowing, surveilling, and sometimes seeking to reshape such religious effervescence in its own image. These dynamics cannot be understood purely through the history of refugee hosting in Jordan but also as ongoing competition between the regime and other actors, particularly Islamists affiliated to its main opposition Muslim Brotherhood, over dīn al-millah, or everyday religious expression.

AB - Since 1948, Jordan has hosted successive waves of refugees from neighboring states. Since the onset of a new refugee crisis in 2011, the evolution of Jordan’s humanitarian assemblage has provided opportunities for the marked expansion, institutionalization, and globalization of Islamic and Christian humanitarianism within Jordan. The level of international influence the Jordanian government has allowed during the crisis has helped facilitate greater religious privacy for local Islamic and Christian charitable actors to express their religious vision through their charitable work with refugees. The regime has responded by allowing, surveilling, and sometimes seeking to reshape such religious effervescence in its own image. These dynamics cannot be understood purely through the history of refugee hosting in Jordan but also as ongoing competition between the regime and other actors, particularly Islamists affiliated to its main opposition Muslim Brotherhood, over dīn al-millah, or everyday religious expression.

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U2 - 10.1080/21520844.2022.2064106

DO - 10.1080/21520844.2022.2064106

M3 - Review article

SN - 2152-0844

VL - 13

SP - 163

EP - 184

JO - Journal of the Middle East and Africa

JF - Journal of the Middle East and Africa

IS - 2

ER -