Displacing Territory: Syrian and Palestinian Refugees in Jordan. By Karen Culcasi, University of Chicago Press, 2023, 200 pp.

Palestinians and Syrians displaced to Jordan remain profoundly connected to their homelands, experiencing deep, though indirect, suffering amid Israel's genocide in Gaza and political violence in Syria.Palestinian refugees have often stressed that their presence in Jordan is temporary, driven by the enduring hope of return (Adler, 2024).In Displacing Territory, Karen Culcasi critically explores how states construct territorial identities that differ from the forms of belonging created by displaced populations themselves.Using a combination of ethnographic fieldwork including interviews with refugees, analysis of legal documents and policies, and engagement with secondary historical literature, Culcasi examines how Palestinian and Syrian communities navigate, resist, and make sense of the territorial boundaries that dictate their life options under the refugee regime.This study integrates critical geography, post-colonial theory, and feminist approaches to intersectionality to examine how refugees in Global South settings, displaced for generations, not only experience territoriality but also actively construct their