Introduction Baqa'a refugee camp

My research will take off in Baqa'a refugee camp. A short introduction about this camp:

Baqa’a refugee camp, established in 1968 as one of the six ‘emergency camps’ after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, initially hosted 26.000 Palestinian refugees from the West Bank. The camp currently hosts around 129.000 registered Palestinian refugees, but also attracted foreign immigrants like Egyptians, Sri Lankans and Iraqis in need for low-cost housing since the 90s. It has also been reported that thousands of Syrian and Palestinian Syrian refugees have found refuge in Baqa’a camp since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiKR5TkVU6w). Finally, Jordanian citizens have also found Baqa'a camp as a place to live, also for the reason of cheap housing.

The camp, currently governed by the local Jordanian authorities, and assisted by UNRWA, exists for almost 50 years and is located in the northern outskirts of Amman, Jordan’s capital. It is stated that the evolution of the camp’s urban landscape has been hampered in order not to sacrifice the Palestinian “right of return’. The right of return, endorsed by the UN General Assembly resolution of December 1948, entails that the refugees’ wish to return home should be allowed when possible, and that compensation should be paid for loss of property by the responsible authorities.

Baqa’a refugee camp was established near Amman to ease the transport of goods and services, strengthened by the temporary intention of the camp. The camp still exists, is densely populated, and is swallowed up by the rapid urbanization of Amman. It has therefore become a “camp-suburb” of Amman. If you would walk around in Baqa’a nowadays, it is hard to imagine that this concrete area was a tented settlement, a planned tented camp that is the starting point for most of the refugee camps worldwide.

An interesting video about the camp's development from the perspective of a UNRWA photographer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBmpXmPCWcc