Syrian refugees and information precarity

Abstract

This study employed focus groups to examine the ways Syrian refugees living in a large refugee camp in Jordan are using cell phones to cope with information precarity, a condition of information instability and insecurity that may result in heightened exposure to violence. These refugees are found to experience information precarity in terms of technological and social access to relevant information; the prevalence of irrelevant, sometimes dangerous information; inability to control their own images; surveillance by the Syrian state; and disrupted social support.This study examines how Syrian refugees living in Jordan are coping with what we call information precarity, a term referring to the condition of instability that refugees experience in accessing news and personal information, potentially leaving them vulnerable to misinformation, stereotyping, and rumors that can affect their economic and social capital. Syria has been called one of the largest humanitarian disasters in a generation as

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This paper presents a case study of a project on education solutions for Syrian refugees in Jordan conductedbetween 2015 -2017 "The Jordanian educational/policy response to refugees is broken and will not easily be fixed or tinkered with. Solutions must work around this system."

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