Giulia El-Dardiry,聽PhD candidate, Anthropology
giulia.eldardiry [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
Project Title:聽A place of hospitable engagements: Displacement,聽integration and livelihoods of Iraqi refugees in Jordan
Research interests:聽forced displacement; Iraq; transnationalism;聽hospitality; place and belonging
Geographic Focus:聽Middle East; Mediterannean
Main supervisor:聽Dr. John Galaty
Project Description:聽Studies of refugees have disproportionately聽focused on encamped populations, betraying a policy-bias toward聽the study of dependent refugee populations, humanitarian聽organisations and experiences of loss, which has precluded聽nuanced understandings of displacement in contexts of protracted聽conflict. This bias has made invisible the significant number of聽self-settled urban refugees who are dramatically altering the聽landscapes of major cities of the global South. In the case of聽Iraq, this bias has made it particularly difficult to properly聽explicate the complex dynamics of the largely urban post-2003聽displacement, in a region profoundly marked by protracted聽conflict, an extensive labour migration regime, as well as聽meta-regional ideologies, such as pan-Arabism, that provide for聽concepts of belonging across boundaries. Specifically, the聽experiences of Iraqi refugees in Jordan, and the ways in which聽they been accommodated by urban host communities, have been聽obscured. In exploring the situation of Iraqis in Jordan through聽the lens of strategies of living, this study hopes to act as a聽corrective to the above bias, and to contribute to understandings聽of forced migration, refugee livelihoods, host-refugee relations聽and the politics of place.
Previous education:
MHSc, Health Sciences, University of Toronto
BA Anthropology, 污污草莓视频 University