Demographic Profile of Syrians in Turkey

Adalı, Tuğba; Türkyilmaz, Ahmet Sinan

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-24451-4_4

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“…Given a specific refugee camp or border crossing, a map of probabilities of the origins of these migrants could be created to provide an estimation of from where in Syria these migrants/refugees originated. Such a model could be validated by known demographics and places of origin for a sample of refugees (Adalı & Türkyılmaz, 2020; Özden, 2013). Similarly, Olsson and Siba (2013) have compiled a list of 530 towns attacked in the Sudanese region of Darfur, and our methods could be used to better understand the resulting migrations of Darfuris.…”

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A Modelling Strategy to Estimate Conditional Probabilities of African Origins: The Collapse of the Oyo Empire and The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1817–1836

Wiens

Lovejoy

Mullen

et al. 2022

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

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Intra‐African conflicts during the collapse of the kingdom of Oyo from 1817 to 1836 resulted in the enslavement of an estimated 121,000 people who were then transported to coastal ports via complex trade networks and loaded onto slave ships destined for the Americas. Historians have a good record of where these people went across the Atlantic, but little is known about where individuals were from or enslaved within Africa. In this work, we develop a novel statistical modelling strategy to describe the enslavement of people given documented violent conflict, the transport of enslaved peoples from their location of capture to their port of departure, and—given an enslaved individual's location of departure—that person's probability of origin. We combine spatial prediction of conflict density via kriging with a Markov decision process characterising intra‐African transportation. The results of this model can be visualised using an interactive web application to plot—for the first time—estimated conditional probabilities of historical origins during the African diaspora. Understanding the likely origins within Africa of enslaved people may have ramifications for the history of the Atlantic world, whereby the ocean connects, rather than disconnects, Africa, the Americas, and Europe.

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A Modelling Strategy to Estimate Conditional Probabilities of African Origins: The Collapse of the Oyo Empire and The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1817–1836

Wiens

Lovejoy

Mullen

et al. 2022

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

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“…While all cities in Turkey have Syrian forced migrants as inhabitants (Adali & Türkyilmaz, 2020), Gaziantep has the second‐highest Syrian population in Turkey, with Syrian residents constituting 22 per cent of the 2,130,432 inhabitants (Presidency of Migration Management (Presidency of Migration Management PoMM, 2022b; TÜİK, 2022). The city has been experiencing a housing shortage for a long time (Özdemir Sari & Aksoy Khurami, 2023).…”

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“…While all cities in Turkey have Syrian forced migrants as inhabitants (Adali & Türkyilmaz, 2020) The confidentiality and data protection of the interviewees have been ensured, and every interview has been anonymized. The demographic profile of the interviewees was coded and stored in a separate file covering the entries on gender, age, and educational background.…”

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Residing without settling: Housing market and tactics of Syrian forced migrants in Turkey

Kurfali

Özçürümez

2023

Population Space and Place

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How do forced migrants from Syria cope with structural barriers to housing in urban centres in Turkey? More than 3.6 million Syrian refugees have lived in different cities in Turkey since the closing of the temporary accommodation centres in 2018. This study examines the agency of Syrians and their housing pathways in securing accommodation in a neoliberal housing market amidst increasing unwelcoming attitudes by the local population, no social housing, high dependence on rental housing prone to price hikes, and “temporary protection” legal status. Based on analysis of data from 34 semi‐structured interviews with forced migrant Syrians and 20 expert interviews in Gaziantep, a city close to the Turkey‐Syria border with a substantial Syrian population, the research identifies four tactics that characterise housing pathways of Syrian forced migrants: (1) acting through local community members, (2) working with a Syrian mediator, (3) settling down in Syrian‐only buildings or informal settlements, and (4) purchasing a house through circumventing the legal ban on property ownership. The study concludes by highlighting that while these tactics are necessary for meeting forced migrants’ immediate housing needs, they are far from sufficient in preventing exclusion in the Turkish housing market.

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Estimating conditional probabilities of historical migrations in the transatlantic slave trade using kriging and Markov decision process models

Wiens,

Lovejoy,

Mullen

et al. 2020

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Intra-African conflicts during the collapse of the kingdom of Oyo from 1817 to 1836 resulted in the enslavement of an estimated 121,000 people who were then transported to coastal ports via complex trade networks and loaded onto slave ships destined for the Americas. Historians have a good record of where these people went across the Atlantic, but little is known about where individuals were from or enslaved within Africa. In this work, we develop a novel two-step statistical approach to describe the enslavement of people given documented violent conflict, the transport of enslaved peoples from their location of capture to their port of departure, and-given an enslaved individual's location of departure-that person's probability of origin. We combine spatial prediction of conflict density via Kriging with a Markov decision process characterising intra-African transporta-

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Demographic Profile of Syrians in Turkey

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

A Modelling Strategy to Estimate Conditional Probabilities of African Origins: The Collapse of the Oyo Empire and The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1817–1836

A Modelling Strategy to Estimate Conditional Probabilities of African Origins: The Collapse of the Oyo Empire and The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1817–1836

Residing without settling: Housing market and tactics of Syrian forced migrants in Turkey

Estimating conditional probabilities of historical migrations in the transatlantic slave trade using kriging and Markov decision process models

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