Violent Conflict and Forced Displacement: Evidence on Social Behavior and Economic Well-Being Among Refugees in Jordan

Project Background

Refugees carry conflict legacies across borders, which highlights the vital importance of the transnational dimensions and implications of conflict situations. In addition, refugee women and girls are often particularly at risk, as they are faced with vulnerabilities, persecution and forms of violence that are based on their gender. However, how the intersectionality of the three dimensions of forced displacement, gender, and violent conflict jointly shape people’s social behaviours and economic well-being is not well understood and empirical evidence is particularly scarce, in part due to a lack of suitable data.

Project Objectives

In this project, we study the gendered long-term impacts of conflict exposure on social behavior and economic well-being among Iraqi and Syrian refugees in Jordan. The aim is to assess how the intersectionality of three dimensions — violent conflict, gender, and forced displacement — jointly shape people’s long-term social behaviors and economic well-being in the receiving country.

Our main hypothesis revolves around the long-term effects of conflict exposure in the origin country on individuals’ social and economic well-being in the destination country.