{"id":16117,"date":"2021-05-28T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=16117"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:31:10","slug":"life-is-tight-here-displacement-and-desire-amongst-syrian-refugee-women-in-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/life-is-tight-here-displacement-and-desire-amongst-syrian-refugee-women-in-jordan","title":{"rendered":"‘Life Is Tight Here’: Displacement and Desire amongst Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Initiatives to increase Syrian women’s access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services are embedded within longer-term interventions that seek to promote women’s empowerment, increase demand for family planning services and reduce the national fertility rate \u2013 a strategy that development economists suggest will assuage the country’s economic woes and reduce unemployment (USAID SHOPS 2015<\/a>). Within development discourse, the high fertility rate amongst Syrian women in Jordan (4.7) compared to that of Jordanian women (2.6) has become an object of concern and investigation (DOS 2019<\/a>). Nationwide surveys have sought to quantify factors that may contribute to high fertility such as healthcare access barriers, religious beliefs, a male partner’s objection to contraception, and concerns or misconceptions about contraceptive side effects (USAID JCAP 2016<\/a>). These hegemonic discourses implicitly construct Syrian women’s high fertility as a problem that stems from lack: a lack of healthcare access, a lack of agency within the marital relationship and a lack of education or knowledge about contraceptive methods.<\/p>\n

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