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Caught in a 'protracted refugee situation'. Views and coping strategies of Syrian refugees in Greater Amman.Elke GrawertRawan AlhomaimatMohammed al-DaghestaniThe seminar will take place at Ifpo at 10 am (the seminar is not opened to public)Abstract:Amman is hosting more than one quarter of UNHCR-registered (175,381 in number, December 2016) and an additional unknown number of unregistered Syrian refugees. How are they securing their livelihoods in a difficult economic environment and under conditions of restricted access to employment? How are their relationships within their urban neighbourhoods? How do they cope with displacement and the horrors of the war in Syria, and what could provide them with a life perspective?A small German-Jordanian-Syrian research team is collecting narrations from Syrian refugees and their neighbours in order to collect answers to these questions from a grassroots perspective. The project aims to build on the experiences and views of refugees in order to develop policy suggestions for meaningful support of people in conditions of protracted displacement. The research is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development BMZ.Biographies:PD Dr Elke Grawert, Political Scientist, Senior Researcher at the Bonn International Center for Conversion BICC since 2010, conducts research projects and manages international cooperative research projects related to violent conflict - causes, dimensions, actors and dynamics; social and political repercussions of external interventions in conflict societies; political and economic transformation processes; dynamics of securing livelihoods; refugees and migration. She is teaching at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology at Bonn University in Germany. Her most recent book publication is about the political economy of the military in the MENA region.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 in several projects in Europe, China, North Africa and the Middle East.Mohammed al-Daghestani is a student of Pharmaceutics at Phildadelphia University, Amman, and assists in the research project.