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Index / Peoples
  Jordan /
Peoples
The ethnic compostion of Jordan is unclear, it is a country of many recent immigration waves; some groups are completely assimilated, others uphold strong identities.
The largest group today are Palestinians, and for long Jordan aspired to become the homeland for the Palestinians; this was linked to the aspirations of making the West Bank permanently Jordanian. Jordan established regulations that immediately grant citizenship to Palestinians moving to Jordan.
The original two population groups are Jordanian Arabs and Bedouins. There are close ties between Jordanians and Palestinians, both groups speaking the same variant of Arabic.
Immigration groups from the 19th century include Chechens, Circassians and Syrians. Armenians came here largely in the beginning of the 20th century, following the Armenian Genocide in Turkey.
Doms represent scattered communities, being largely a group of low social status with lifestyles of partially a nomadic character.
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By: Tore Kjeilen
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