Author Ann-Cristin Wagner, LSE Middle East Centre

Ann-Cristin Wagner, LSE Middle East Centre

Ann-Christin Wagner is a PhD candidate in International Development at the University of Edinburgh and affiliated with the Institut Francais du Proche-Orient in Amman. Her research focuses on the role of ‘waiting’ and stalled mobilities in protracted displacement. She is currently conducting one year of ethnographic fieldwork with urban Syrian refugees in the north of Jordan, while also volunteering as an interpreter with an international NGO. She tweets at @ann_wagner_ed.

Bad Guests? On the Role of House Visits in Aid Delivery in Urban Jordan

Ann-Cristin Wagner, LSE Middle East Centre

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When I meet Abu Eisa, a well-established cook, he is busy preparing meals for poor Syrians for the first iftar of Ramadan. His hometown, Mafraq, a Jordanian border town close to Zaatari camp, is among the...

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Author Ann-Cristin Wagner, LSE Middle East Centre

Ann-Cristin Wagner, LSE Middle East Centre

Bad Guests? On the Role of House Visits in Aid Delivery in Urban Jordan