"The Silent Treatment": Fleeing Iraq, Surviving in Jordan

“The Silent Treatment”

Fleeing Iraq, Surviving in Jordan

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I. Map

II. Executive Summary

Refugee Terminology

Recommendations

III. Background

IV. Refoulement—Rejections at the Border and Deportations

Jordan’s Nonrefoulement Obligations

Nonrefoulement obligation adheres to de facto refugees and at the border

Rejection at the Border

Arrests and Deportations of Iraqi Nationals

UNHCR-recognized refugees

Asylum-seeker card holders under UNHCR’s temporary protection regime

Persons UNHCR rejected as refugees prior to 2003, but whose need for at least temporary protection may have changed because of the war

Persons who have not approached UNHCR, but who fled persecution or generalized violence

V. UNHCR and Temporary Protection

Registration for temporary protection—Asylum cards

Complementary Protection: Another Approach in the Absence of a TPR

VI. Surviving in Jordan

Visas and Residence Permits

Employment/Unemployment

Education

Health Care

Housing

VII. Vulnerable Groups

Alleged Collaborators

Former Ba`thists and Their Families

Professionals and Intellectuals

Iraqi Christians and Mandaeans

Palestinians

Palestinians at Al-Ruwaishid Camp

Iranian Kurds

VIII. The Response of Other Countries to Iraqis Fleeing War and Persecution

The Response of Syria

The Response of Lebanon

The Response of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia

The Response of Iran

The Response of Turkey

The Response of Yemen and Egypt

The Response of the United States, United Kingdom and Other Resettlement and Donor Countries outside the Region

Methodology

Acknowledgements

November 2006 Volume 18, No. 10(E)