1st Edition
Syrian Refugees in Turkey A Demographic Profile and Linked Social Challenges
This book examines the changing demographic situation of Syrian refugees
and the host community in Turkey, one of the major refugee hosting countries
in the world, relying on a recent representative dataset.
Conflicts and the resulting unrest force people to flee their countries and
take refuge in foreign lands. Such refugee movements across the world have
increased significantly in recent times. Turkey accounts for the greatest refugee
population in the world today. This has drastically impacted the Turkish
demographics, leading to different demographic situations in refugee
communities in the country. This book presents an in-depth research on
the impact of forced displacement on the demographic behaviour of Syrian
refugees in Turkey in general, and more specifically the way transformed
family structures, unregistered children, fertility behaviours and early
marriages impacted their lives. The book also contributes to the existing
knowledge and discourse on refugee integration by shedding light on their
experiences related to access to labour market opportunities and education
opportunities, wellbeing and mobility. It also helps in linking demography
of Syrian community to the socio-economic challenges in Turkey by means
of incorporating crucial demographic variables into the analysis.
Offering valuable insights into various dimensions of life, this book has
an interdisciplinary appeal and will thus be a key resource for academics
and scholars of demography, refugee studies, migration studies and sociology.
It will also be a valuable and unique reference work for people in
governments, international agencies and non-governmental organizations.
1. Introduction
Alanur Çavlin
Part 1: Demographic Structure
2. Citizenship, De Facto Statelessness, and Birth Registration of Syrian Migrants in Turkey
Alanur Çavlin and Faruk Keskin
3.The Impact of Conflict-Induced Migration on Family Structure of Syrian Refugees in Turkey: A Comparative Analysis of Pre-Conflict and Post-Conflict Periods, 2006-2018
İsmet Koç and Melike Saraç
Part 2: Women and Child Health
4. Timing of Reproductive Events Among Host Community and Syrian Refugee Women in Turkey: An Event History Analysis from Menarche to Menopause
Melike Saraç and İsmet Koç
5. Child, Early and Forced Marriages Among Syrian Migrant Women in Turkey
İlknur Yüksel-Kaptanoğlu and Cansu Dayan
6. Fertility Behavior of Syrian Women in Turkey: The Crosscut of Intention and Regulation
Pelin Çağatay, Faruk Keskin and Banu Ergöçmen
Part 3: Integration and Inclusion
7. Syrian Children in Focus: Early School Leaving and Integration into the Turkish Education System
Mehmet Ali Eryurt
8. Syrians In Labor: A Matter of Integration Through Informality
Ayşe Abbasoğlu Özgören and Hilal Arslan
9. Objective and Subjective Well-being Profiles of Syrian Migrants
Hilal Arslan and Alanur Çavlin
10. Internal Movement of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Ceren Topgül and Tuğba Adalı
Part 4: Future Implications
11. Projections for the Syrian Population in Turkey
Tuğba Adalı, Ahmet Sinan Türkyılmaz and Zehra Yayla Enfiyeci
12. The Early Childhood Development of Syrian Children in Turkey
Banu Ergöçmen and Zehra Yayla Enfiyeci
13. Conclusion
Alanur Çavlin
Biography
Alanur Çavlin is faculty member of the Institute of Population Studies at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. Her research interests are registration systems, surveillance, demography of ethnicity, abortion and child abuse. She is the project director of 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey.
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