the camp — again highlighting the crucial importance of support networks within Jerash camp itself. Both making ends meet and borrowing from friends and family was widely perceived to have become more difficult in the last decade, with less remittances coming in from abroad and with Jordan’s shift away from generalised subsidies towards more targeted poverty support. Thus, as one woman explained: People used to lend others money, but since about 10 years ago, people's situations are different; people are barely able to feed their children and family, to maintain their homes. Life completely changed, especially on us ex-Gazans. One year, we were exactly like Jordanians in all our transactions; when they release coupons, they would give us too; when they used to give sugar and rice coupons [...] we were like Jordanians, we used to receive it too. But when the gas thing came up, they didn't give us ex-Gazans in the camp [...] gas support 239. Pooling various incomes and resources within and between households and relying on debt is vital for many residents of Jerash camp to meet basic needs and weather economic shocks. Yet given the difficulty of generating any significant ‘buffer’ through such means, it remains a precarious strategy with often limited potential to help residents graduate from poverty. 239 Female, age 39, Jerash camp, 27 January and 3 February 2016. ‘Just getting by’ Ex-Gazans in Jerash and other refugee camps in Jordan 123