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  The rise in the number of refugees is most felt in urban areas and primary cities like Amman (Photo by Camille Dupire) AMMAN — Amman hosts 32 per cent of the 1.4 million refugees currently living in Jordan, a recent report by the World Bank and Feinstein International Centre, that looked into the impact of urban displacement in the MENA cities, found.   With the multiplication of regional crises and waves of unrest, the issue of forcibly displaced people relocation has become one of the most pressing challenges in the region, according to the report titled “Cities of Refuge in the Middle East”, which stressed that most of these people live outside of camps. In Jordan, 80 per cent of the Syrian refugees live in host communities across the Kingdom, mostly concentrated in urban areas, according to official figures. This is due to a perception that cities ...

Specifications - (explanation) Location Nijmegen Function types PhD positions Scientific fields Behaviour and Society Hours 30.4 - 38.0 hours per week Education University Graduate Job number 27.06.15 Translations en   About employer Radboud University Short link www.academictransfer.com/28018 Job description As a PhD candidate, you will contribute to the research project ‘Migrant Entrepreneurs as Actors of Urban Change and Innovation’. In today’s globalised world where more people live in urbanised areas, metropolitan r...