Frantic Waiting: NGO Anti-Politics and "Timepass" for Young Syrian Refugees in Jordan Ann-Christin Wagner urban displacement timepass Syrian refugee crisis NGO youth politics Jordan rural livelihoods Drawing on Sukarieh and Tannock's political economy of youth approach, this paper explores how Syrian refugee youth is constituted in protracted displacement in Jordan. It investigates a juvenile population often overlooked in Forced Migration Studies, disenfranchised rural Syrians, who fail to develop practices of youthfulness, yet in exile are subjected to alternative productions of youth by the aid sector. Depoliticized NGO youth programming overlooks Syrians' limited access to the labour market and higher education. While educational trainings aim to produce entrepreneurial and citizen refugees, they ultimately contribute to the creation of timepass and precarious lives. This research is grounded in fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with Syrian refugees in a border town in northern Jordan. Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg 2017 2017-12-08 2018-01-31 Text article urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2017-191-70049 eng 2714728-9 9 1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/article/download/7004/7525 10.17192/meta.2017.9.7004 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2017/191/7004