Displacement, humanitarian interventions and gender rights in the Middle East: Syrian refugees in Jordan as a case study

The article focuses on a particular type of Islamic marriage, so-called imam marriages, which are not recognised by the Jordanian state but widely practised among and with Syrian refugees since their influx to Jordan in 2011. State institutions feminist humanitarian organisations advocate registration these marriages basis fulfilling UN conventions gender human rights protection. I, however, argue this that enforcement marriage implementation hegemonic moral order give rise contradictory deployment security protection non-state actors claim ensure. Imposed policies undermine safety social standing refugee women Jordan, particular, exposing them increased public hypervisibility. This analyses within multi-layered local transnational socio-political contexts, highlighting thereby wider complexity power relations intersecting and, very often conflicting, structures place more vulnerable positions. provides new insights into impact interventions displaced people Middle East taking as case study.