Zaatari

مخيم الزعتري; Zaatari
Coordinates	32 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ N , 36 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 32 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ N , 36 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ E
Basic data
Country	Jordan
Governorate	al-Mafraq
ISO 3166-2	JO-MA
surface	5 km²
Residents	79,000 (2015)
density	15,800 Ew. / km²
founding	July 28, 2012
politics
mayor	Hovig Etyemezian
	Refugee camp
	View of Zaatari, July 2013

Zaatari (also Saatari , Arabic مخيم الزعتري, DMG Muḫayyam az-Zaʿtarī ) is a refugee camp in northern Jordan , about 10 km east of Mafraq and six kilometers south of the Syrian border. It is one of the world's largest refugee camps and is developing into a permanent settlement; for example, there is a main street with market stalls and shops, called “ Champs-Élysées ”. It is now Jordan's fourth largest city.

The main street of Zaatari, 2013

Since July 2012, people have found refuge there from the civil war in Syria ; It is estimated that the camp has around 79,000 residents. The United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR is responsible ; The head of the settlement was the German development aid worker Kilian Kleinschmidt . One of his self-imposed tasks is to determine districts and assign street names so that every refugee has a unique address.

Numerous aid organizations such as Doctors Without Borders are active in Zaatari ; Schools were built, a soccer field laid out. The German technical aid organization took care of communal kitchens, sewage and toilets with over 100 employees.

The cost of the refugee camp is around $ 500,000 a day.

Web links

Commons : Zaatari refugee camp - collection of images, videos and audio files

Zaatari in the UNHCR Data Portal
Ronen Steinke: Civil War in Syria: Refugees as an Economic Factor . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 24, 2015, accessed on March 9, 2015.
UNHCR documentary Zaatari: A Day in the Life .
FAZ.net December 8, 2015: Report from Zaatari

Individual evidence

↑ KARIN LAUB: After 3 years, Jordan refugee camp for Syrians now a city - ap, Aug. 2, 2015
^ Michael Kimmelman: Refugee Camp for Syrians in Jordan Evolves as a Do-It-Yourself City . In: The New York Times , July 4, 2013, accessed October 16, 2014
^ Ronen Steinke: Civil War in Syria: Refugees as an economic factor . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 24, 2015, accessed on March 9, 2015.
↑ Information from the UNHCR , accessed on October 17, 2014
↑ Takis Würger: The Mayor. In: Der Spiegel , No. 26/2013, June 24, 2013 (date online version)
↑ Damian Imöhl: The German "Mayor" of Zaatari. berliner-kurier.de, June 24, 2013, accessed on October 16, 2014
↑ Syrian crisis: refugee camp at the limit of capacity. thw.de, April 19, 2013, accessed on October 16, 2014
↑ Lucy Rodgers, Gerry Fletcher, Helene Sears, Christopher Ashton, Tian Yuan, Steven Atherton: Zaatari refugee camp: Rebuilding lives in the desert. bbc.com, September 3, 2013, accessed October 16, 2014 (with numerous graphics)

[1] KARIN LAUB: After 3 years, Jordan refugee camp for Syrians now a city - ap, Aug. 2, 2015

[2] Michael Kimmelman: Refugee Camp for Syrians in Jordan Evolves as a Do-It-Yourself City . In: The New York Times , July 4, 2013, accessed October 16, 2014

[3] Ronen Steinke: Civil War in Syria: Refugees as an economic factor . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 24, 2015, accessed on March 9, 2015.

[4] Information from the UNHCR , accessed on October 17, 2014

[5] Takis Würger: The Mayor. In: Der Spiegel , No. 26/2013, June 24, 2013 (date online version)

[6] Damian Imöhl: The German "Mayor" of Zaatari. berliner-kurier.de, June 24, 2013, accessed on October 16, 2014

[7] Syrian crisis: refugee camp at the limit of capacity. thw.de, April 19, 2013, accessed on October 16, 2014

[8] Lucy Rodgers, Gerry Fletcher, Helene Sears, Christopher Ashton, Tian Yuan, Steven Atherton: Zaatari refugee camp: Rebuilding lives in the desert. bbc.com, September 3, 2013, accessed October 16, 2014 (with numerous graphics)