Collateral Repair Podcast

Season 2 (2024): Episode 1, “The Waiting Station.” After a five year hiatus, the Collateral Repair Podcast is back! This season, we’ll be exploring the lived experiences of refugees in Jordan and the policies affecting them, amid the wider context of global displacement.

In our introductory episode, we talk to Ali, a CRP colleague and member of Amman’s Iraqi community, and Amanda Lane, CRP’s executive director...

Season 2 (2024): Episode 2, “Refuge, Home, and Memory in Hashemi Shamali.” Our second episode of the season discusses CRP’s home neighborhood of Hashemi Shamali in East Amman, which has long been a refuge for people fleeing from other countries. 

We speak to two members of the community who arrived from Syria, 40 years apart, about their lives in Hashemi, memories of their old country, and prospects for the future...

Season 2 (2024): Episode 3, “Jordan and the ‘One Refugee Approach.’” Jordan's refugee response actors say their work has been guided by the ‘One Refugee Approach.” That is, a refugee is a refugee, deserving of the same rights no matter where they’re from...

Season 2 (2024): Episode 4, “Refugees and Jordan’s Economy with Shaddin al-Masri.” To survive in today’s world, you need money. And to make money, you need a job. But this is not a simple proposition for Jordan’s 700,000 refugees, the majority of whom face exclusion from Jordan’s formal economy...

Season 2 (2024): Episode 5, “On the Other Side of Waiting: The Long Path to Resettlement with Kitti Murray.”

Most people registered as refugees in Jordan hope that, one day, they will be accepted for resettlement to countries in North America and Europe, where there are more viable paths to work and citizenship. However, last year, just 1.4% of Jordan’s refugees were accepted for resettlement...

Season 2 (2024): Episode 6, “The Border Inside: Notes from Belgrade and El Paso”

It might seem strange for a podcast about displacement in the Middle East to suddenly pivot to two other continents. But that’s exactly what we’re doing here! In Belgrade, Serbia, Zach talks to his friend Zaki, who left Afghanistan to seek safety in Europe...

Season 2 (2024): Episode 7, "Community Empowerment"

Many of our recent episodes have focused on policy…. Good policy, and bad policy, and the policies that need to change. But these are shifts that might take generations, and in the meantime, refugee communities don’t have the luxury of waiting. 

For our final episode of Season 2, we bring our attention back to Jordan...