Chercheur associé
Associate research fellow
Ifpo – Amman, Jordanie
Axe 3 – J. Al Husseini (coord.) : The politics of refugee migration: redefining states, borders and nation-building
Biography
Jalal Al Husseini is an associate research fellow at the Ifpo. Based in Amman since 1997, he has been involved both as a coordinator and as a participant in academic and applied research projects on refugee issues and more generally on the political and socioeconomic development of the Middle East. His fieldwork has mainly covered Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria around issues related to the political modalities of refugee integration and the role of local governments and international assistance agencies (UNRWA, UNHCR). He has also regularly supervised Masters and PhD students working on similar issues. Holder of a PhD obtained at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva), with a doctoral dissertation on the political dimensions of UNRWA’s mandate, he has more recently specialized in the political significance of Diaspora. In this vein, he has recently conducted a 5-years programme on the Palestinian Diaspora involving a dozen researchers from Europe and from the Middle East that has resulted into a book: Les Palestiniens entre Etat et Diaspora, published by IISMM/Karthala in December 2011. More recently he has studied and published on the political and socioeconomic impacts of the refugees from Syria on Jordan.
Research project
The research proposed for the ANR follows the third axis of analysis that looks at migrants’ impacts on host societies’ political fabric. It will explore the educational policies that are elaborated by Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey in coordination with the international agencies to suit the Syrian and Iraqi educational needs. It questions the articulation of a national identity promoted by local curricula with the preservation of the young refugees’ indigenous identity.
Keywords
education, national identity, indigenous identity, integration