Description
This paper seeks to examine Lebanon and Jordan's patterns of incorporation toward Palestinian refugees in their respective societies via employment, education, and healthcare policies. The techniques include an archival comparative analysis between Lebanon and Jordan's employment, education, and healthcare policies by employing Yasemin Soysal's (1994) 'membership models of incorporation'. This paper seeks to determine whether or not Lebanon and Jordan's policies toward refugee incorporation fit within Soysal's framework of a fragmental membership model or suggest another framework of incorporation. The findings of this paper determine that Lebanon and Jordan's employment, education,and healthcare policies do in fact disincorporate non-citizen Palestinian refugees and therefore partially reflect a fragmental model as Soysal suggests. As a result, non-citizen Palestinian refugees in both Lebanon and Jordan rely heavily upon the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for social provisions that their respective host state denies them access to. Thus, this paper concludes that Lebanon and Jordan's model of membership incorporation is a quasi-categorization that is characterized by 'centralized state-sponsored refugee disincorporation' supplemented by 'incorporation through an international welfare government'.
