If you are in Amman, come out to the full-day conference "The Arab Uprising: Researching the Revolutions" at CBRL Amman on 23 September, from 8:30am to 7pm.
I will be joining a host of exciting speakers with a talk entitled "Social Networks and the 'Arab Uprisings': From Revolution to Refugees".
Abstract:
Strong social networks have been shown to correlate with improved economic outcomes and emotional wellbeing in urban refugee populations. In the Middle East and North Africa, social networks are based on a wide variety of relational social identities that interconnect, overlap, and dissolve into one another. These relations are both traditional, such as family ties and qabiilah networks, and newly emergent, such as pan-Arab nationalism and business networks. Many of these networks cross state borders; they influence everyday activities and dynamics of crises throughout the region. Little research has been carried out on how refugees actively build and rebuild social networks in new urban settings to maximize outcomes, how shared relational identities with host populations affect tensions with urban refugee populations, or how the humanitarian community could support the development of
these networks. This study explores how this social resource is negotiated by Syrian refugees living in Irbid, Jordan.
I will be joining a host of exciting speakers with a talk entitled "Social Networks and the 'Arab Uprisings': From Revolution to Refugees".
Abstract:
Strong social networks have been shown to correlate with improved economic outcomes and emotional wellbeing in urban refugee populations. In the Middle East and North Africa, social networks are based on a wide variety of relational social identities that interconnect, overlap, and dissolve into one another. These relations are both traditional, such as family ties and qabiilah networks, and newly emergent, such as pan-Arab nationalism and business networks. Many of these networks cross state borders; they influence everyday activities and dynamics of crises throughout the region. Little research has been carried out on how refugees actively build and rebuild social networks in new urban settings to maximize outcomes, how shared relational identities with host populations affect tensions with urban refugee populations, or how the humanitarian community could support the development of
these networks. This study explores how this social resource is negotiated by Syrian refugees living in Irbid, Jordan.