Palestinians in Jordan refers mainly to those with
Palestinian refugee
Palestinian refugees are citizens of Mandatory Palestine, and their descendants, who fled or were expelled from their country over the course of the 1947–49 Palestine war (1948 Palestinian exodus) and the Six-Day War (1967 Palestinian exodu ...
status currently residing there. Sometimes the definition includes Jordanian citizens with full
Palestinian origin.
Most Palestinian ancestors came to
Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...
as Palestinian refugees between 1947 and 1967. Today, most Palestinians and their descendants in Jordan are fully naturalized, making Jordan the only Arab country to fully integrate the Palestinian refugees of 1948.
In Jordan, there is no official census data for how many inhabitants are Palestinians and it rather depends on the definition of who is a Palestinian.
Some 2.18 million Palestinians were registered as refugees in 2016.
As of 2014, around 370,000 live in
ten refugee camps, with the biggest one being
Baqa'a refugee camp with over 104,000 residents, followed by
Amman New Camp (Wihdat) with over 51,500 residents.
[
Palestinians are overwhelmingly concentrated in northern and central Jordan, specifically in the ]Amman Governorate
Amman Governorate, officially known as Muhafazat al-Asima ( ar, محافظة العاصمة, English translation: The Capital Governorate), is one of the governorates in Jordan. The governorate's capital is the city of Amman, which is also the ...
, Zarqa Governorate
Zarqa Governorate ( ar, محافظة الزرقاء ''Muħāfazat az-Zarqāʔ'', local dialects ''ez-Zergā'' or ''ez-Zer'a'') is the third largest governorate in Jordan by population. The capital of Zarqa governorate is Zarqa City, which is the ...
and Irbid Governorate
Irbid or Irbed ( ar, إربد) is a governorate in Jordan, located north of Amman, the country's capital. The capital of the governorate is the city of Irbid. The governorate has the second largest population in Jordan after Amman Governorate, an ...
.
Notable people
This is a list of notable Palestinians in Jordan and people of Palestinian ancestry:
* Anwar Nusseibeh, politician
* Ahmad Toukan, politician
* Amer Shafi, footballer
* Emad Hajjaj, cartoonist
* Hassan Abdel-Fattah, footballer
* Ibrahim Nasrallah, poet and novelist
* Princess Firyal of Jordan
Firyal Irshaid ( ar, فريال إرشيد, born 1945) is a Jordanian humanitarian and philanthropist.
She became a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in 1992, working on programs for education and protection of world heritage. She is a board member at t ...
, princess
* Samir al-Rifai, politician
* Queen Alia of Jordan
Alia Al-Hussein ( ar, علياء الحسين, born Alia Bahauddin Toukan (); 25 December 1948 – 9 February 1977) was the Queen of Jordan and the third wife of King Hussein from their marriage in 1972 until her death in a helicopter crash in so ...
, third wife of King Hussein
Hussein bin Talal ( ar, الحسين بن طلال, ''Al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭalāl''; 14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999) was King of Jordan from 11 August 1952 until his death in 1999. As a member of the Hashemite dynasty, the royal family of ...
* Queen Rania of Jordan
Rania Al-Abdullah ( ar, رانيا العبد الله, ; born Rania Al-Yassin, 31 August 1970) is Queen of Jordan as the wife of King Abdullah II.
Rania was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents. She received her bachelor's degree in busin ...
, wife of King Abdullah II
Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein ( ar, عبدالله الثاني بن الحسين , translit=ʿAbd Allāh aṯ-ṯānī ibn al-Ḥusayn; born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of t ...
* Hanan Al-Agha, plastic artist
* , actor
See also
* Refugees of the Syrian Civil War in Jordan
* Demographics of Jordan
Jordan has a population of around 11 million inhabitants as of 2021. Jordanians ( ar, أردنيون) are the citizens of Jordan. Some 95% percent of Jordanians are Arabs, while the remaining 5% are other ethnic minorities. Around 2.9 million wer ...
* 1948 Palestinian exodus
In 1948 more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs – about half of prewar Palestine's Arab population – were expelled or fled from their homes, during the 1948 Palestine war. The exodus was a central component of the fracturing, dispossessio ...
* 1967 Palestinian exodus
* Jordanian annexation of the West Bank
The Jordanian annexation of the West Bank formally occurred on 24 April 1950, after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, during which Transjordan occupied territory that had previously been part of Mandatory PalestineRaphael Israeli, Jerusalem div ...
* King Hussein's federation plan
* Three-state solution
Bibliography
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* Sayigh Yusuf, 1984, Al-Urdunn wa-l-Filastiniyyun, Dirasah fi Wihdat al-Masir aw al-Sira’ al-Hatmi (Arabic), London, Riyad El-Rayyis Books
References
External links
Progress, challenges, diversity - Insights into the socio-economic conditions of Palestinian refugees in Jordan
2013 Fafo Foundation report
{{Demographics of Jordan
Ethnic groups in Jordan
Middle Eastern diaspora in Jordan
Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...