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"Amman between the shadows of its urban migrants". The impact of Syrian refugees on host community.Rawan AlhomaimatThe seminar will take place at Ifpo at 10.30 am (the seminar is not opened to public)Abstact:Rawan will present the result of her Master thesis which captures the story of Amman in a critical period. Indeed, crises in the Middle East and especially in Syria lead to major urban transformations. Her presentation aims to analyse the refugee crisis from the perspective of the host community, comparing the situation before and after the Syrian crisis. More specifically, she will tackle the issue of social cohesion over urban morphology following successive migration waves. Based on a case study, her fieldwork was conducted during seven months from February to August 2016.Keywords: Social Cohesion, Amman, Jordan, Migration, Refugee, Syrian crisis, Host Community, Urban developmentBiography:Rawan Alhomaimat is an architect and urbanist from Jordan; she obtained her bachelor degree in Architecture in 2013. In 2014, she obtained a master degree in urban planning, habitat and international cooperation from the Institute of Urbanism (Grenoble, France). During her studies she participated to several projects in Europe, China, North Africa and the Middle East.