This webinar explores the lived realities of Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Jordan, with a particular focus on their senses of belonging to different places. By focusing on Jordan, a Global South state that hosts among the largest number of refugees per capita, this webinar highlights the human side of displacement and offers humanitarian options for managing refugee flows globally.

Karen Culcasi is an Associate Professor of Geography at West Virginia University. Her research uses critical and feminist geopolitical frames to examine contested places and identities. Her work focuses on the “Middle East”, the Arab World, and Appalachia. She is the author of Displacing Territory: Syrian and Palestinian Refugees in Jordan. Based on fieldwork, this book explores the lived experience of refugees and their sense of belonging to different places and territories. Currently, Dr. Culcasi is working on two research projects: an archival research project on maps of the so-called “Middle East” and another on Islamophobia and the daily lives of Muslims in West Virginia.

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