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Author:   Mirjam Twigt
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   43
ISBN:  

9781800733435

ISBN 10:   1800733437
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   14 January 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Notes on Translation and Transliteration List of Abbreviations Introduction: Becoming and Being a (Dis)connected Forced Migrant Chapter 1. 'Life is Like a Waiting Stop' - Situating Experiences of Iraqi Refugees in Jordan's Temporary Protection Context Chapter 2. Hoping for Solutions in a 'Surrogate State' Chapter 3. Tactics to Get 'Unstuck' - Refugee Protests and Seeking Alternative Means to Travel Chapter 4. Prolonged Legal Uncertainties and their Interaction with Virtual Homemaking Practices in Amman Chapter 5. The Mediation of Hope: Digital Technologies and Affective Affordances within Iraqi Refugee Households Chapter 6. Post-humanitarian Shifts in Jordan's Protection Space Chapter 7. Fast-forward to 2018: Technologies Towards Accountability for UNHCR Jordan's Persons of Concern Conclusion: (Dis)connectivity and the Politics of Hope References Index

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This is an excellent, innovative and urgent book detailing and theorizing the mediated sense-making practices of refugees negotiating prolonged situations of displacement. Koen Leurs, Utrecht University Tackles an important dimension of refugee experience, focusing specifically on the lives of Iraqi urban refugees in Amman. In this way, this research extends the growing body of studies of urban refugees, and their experiences especially in the cities of the Global South. Katarzyna Grabska, Peace Research Institute, Oslo

...well-grounded in the complex realities and frustrations of Twigt's interlocutors, giving the reader key insights into the understandings and expectations displaced Iraqis have of the UNHCR in Jordan... The author paints a detailed picture of the digital lives of refugees outside Europe, showing diverse forms of waiting in the digital space that go beyond the traditionally researched sites of queues, camps, and job centres in forced migration studies. In this way, the book illustrates the crucial mediation between material realities and digital geographies for refugees that should inform how we frame displaced communities in the Global South and beyond. * Journal of Refugee Studies This is an excellent, innovative and urgent book detailing and theorizing the mediated sense-making practices of refugees negotiating prolonged situations of displacement. * Koen Leurs, Utrecht University Tackles an important dimension of refugee experience, focusing specifically on the lives of Iraqi urban refugees in Amman. In this way, this research extends the growing body of studies of urban refugees, and their experiences especially in the cities of the Global South. * Katarzyna Grabska, Peace Research Institute, Oslo

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Mirjam Twigt is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo and is currently researching the move towards technologies in humanitarian assistance for refugees.

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