ABSTRACT
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a young country in the Middle East, independent since 1946 with historic ties to the UK and, since 1957, with the US. It has witnessed waves of incoming refugees the first of which were Palestinians in 1947–1948 in the wake of the UN Partition Resolution of Palestine and the first Arab–Israeli war. The second was between 1950 and 1967 when Palestinians from the West Bank shifted residence to Jordan after the two entities became integral parts of the Hashemite Kingdom, and the third was also Palestinian during and in the aftermath of the June 1967 war between Israel and the surrounding Arab countries. More waves ensued in the 1980s and thereafter, this time from the east as Iraq forcefully occupied Kuwait in 1990 and the succeeding wars thereafter.
