Editors’ introduction: precarious lives and Syrian refugees in Turkey

Eder, Mine; Ozkul, Derya

doi:10.1017/npt.2016.5

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“…Moreover, we note that other countries’ demographics are beginning more and more to resemble those of the United States. Migration is on the rise, worldwide (Czaika & de Haas, 2014; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2014), and in many countries, an influx of relatively poor migrants is changing the demographic composition of the populace (Andritzky, Aretz, Christofzik, & Schmidt, 2016; Eder & Ozkul, 2016; Hodes et al, 2018). In many of these countries, the result is a starker economic division along ethnic lines, mirroring that of the United States (de Giorgi, 2010; Dustman & Frattini, 2012; Eurofound, 2012; Lelkes, 2007).…”

Section: Practical Meaning: the Psychology Of Low Statusmentioning

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Motivational Accounts of the Vicious Cycle of Social Status: An Integrative Framework Using the United States as a Case Study

Laurin

Engstrom

Alic

2018

Perspect Psychol Sci

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Social mobility is limited in most industrialized countries, and especially in the United States: Children born to relatively poor parents are less likely to prosper than other children. This observation has multiple explanations; in the current article, we focus on emerging motivational perspectives, synthesizing them into a novel integrative framework grounded in a classic theory of motivation: expectancy-value theory. Together, these findings indicate that individuals with lower socioeconomic status (SES) may be less motivated to achieve status relative to individuals with higher SES—not because of their own personal failings, but as a result of their material, social and cultural contexts. We then consider the significant theoretical advantages of this integrative framework, most notably that it enables us to consider how the disparate perspectives linking motivation to SES are linked and may at times compound or offset each other. In turn, this enables us to make sophisticated predictions concerning the conditions that will enable individuals with low SES to escape the vicious cycle of low motivation. Moreover, our account helps bridge the gap between explanations that locate the cause for low social mobility within individuals and those that locate it in the broader system. We end by addressing implications for the psychological understanding of low status and implications for social policy.

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Section: Practical Meaning: the Psychology Of Low Statusmentioning

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Motivational Accounts of the Vicious Cycle of Social Status: An Integrative Framework Using the United States as a Case Study

Laurin

Engstrom

Alic

2018

Perspect Psychol Sci

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“…guaranteeing their early survival and coping in the host community, finding rental houses and jobs for each other and disseminating information on local economic conditions (Orhan 2014;Kilicaslin 2016). However, over the course of prolonged displacement, solidarity based on national, ethnic and religious identities has weakened and the collective practice of social and cultural norms, including gender, has fundamentally been disturbed (Eder and Ozkul 2016). Socio-economic vulnerability forced Syrian refugees to reconfigure their habitual gendered daily spatial practices in order to cope with the context of displacement.…”

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The emerging intersectional performative gender of displaced Syrian women in southeast Turkey

Muhanna-Matar

2021

Gender, Place & Culture

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This article explores the interconnection between intersectionality and gender performativity.It aims to understand how the interplay between multiple identities based on gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion and sexuality contributes to shaping different forms of gender performativity within the context of Syrians' displacement in Turkey. The article presents an analysis of interview data collected from 40 Syrian refugee women living in three southeast Turkish border cities: Gaziantep, Mardin and Sanliurfa. The research used the method of personal narrative interviewing to explore changing gender practices in the context of displacement. It is argued that the emerging gender performativity of Syrian refugee women is shaped by the intersecting of their multiple identities; the interconnection between the past and the present experiences of these identities; and the different effects of identity practices over time and place on women's lived experience and social relations.

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“…The reason behind this approach is to stress the often overlooked damage which is brought by informal work to business competition and to the viability of public health systems. With respect to the former, informal labour constitutes an unfair advantage that diminishes 29 See, as examples for the case of Syrian refugees in Turkey Eder & Özkul (2016) or S ¸enses (2016).…”

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Coping with Intersecting Vulnerabilities: Syrian Refugee Women Working in Textile Workshops in Istanbul

Kyung-Ah¹

2022

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Other investigations like the ones written by İçduygu & Millet (2016) and İçduygu & Diker (2017) study possible ways of integrating Syrian refugees in the society from a legal and a social standpoint.In particular, these authors highlight the importance of the current legislative challenges faced by Turkey, including the enactment of regulation that prevents refugees from taking on informal jobs or incentives to employers to provide formal jobs to refugees. Our research not only confirms this extent, but is also able to quantify the role of legal constraints on Syrian's ability to obtain a work permit. An item related to integration is skill building, however, our research finds a triple threat in this regard, first, the proportion of highly qualified Syrians is decreasing in younger cohorts, second, the few Syrians with tertiary studies tend to work in jobs for which they are overqualified and, at last, their qualifications are not rewarded in the same way Turkish natives' ones are. The need for skill building is well explained in, for instance, İçduygu & Diker (2017), who argues in favour of skill building programs for refugees as a necessary step toward their integration in the labour market. In addition to these challenges, the studies prepared by İçduygu & Millet (2016) and ORSAM (2015) mention an increasing probability that Syrian refugees will become permanent residents of Turkey, which raises the importance of investments in education. However, and irrespectively of whether 3.6 million Syrians become Turkish nationals or not, we are no longer talking about a short-term humanitarian response but, rather, about a long-term integration problem which demands effective policy responses.Existing data sources. Despite some successful attempts at producing studies on the impact of Syrian refugees at the macroeconomic level, little is known about their personal circumstances. One of the most remarkable attempts from a sociological point of view is the Syrian Barometer, see Erdogan (2017), a national-level survey covering 11 provinces and interviewing 1,235 Syrian families, reaching out, in total, 7,591 Syrians. Even though attractive in terms of understanding Turkish nationals' sentiment with regards the Syrian population, it lacks, beyond a few basic questions, deep information with regards Syrians' labour market performance.Other ad-hoc surveys on Syrian refugees' socio-economic conditions are not as ambitious and the few existing sources lack national representativeness. Still, a remarkable effort in gathering data at the microeconomic level can be found in Uçak & Raman (2017). This research uses a survey on Syrian-owned SMEs to provide a snapshot of this type of companies, including the value of having them for the Turkish economy. With regards to the dataset, which can be taken as a small-scale enterprise survey, it included visits to 230 businesses equally split between Istanbul and Gaziantep on the condition that they were legally established, currently active and had at least an employee. On the negative s...

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Editors’ introduction: precarious lives and Syrian refugees in Turkey

Cited by 17 publications

References 7 publications

Motivational Accounts of the Vicious Cycle of Social Status: An Integrative Framework Using the United States as a Case Study

Motivational Accounts of the Vicious Cycle of Social Status: An Integrative Framework Using the United States as a Case Study

The emerging intersectional performative gender of displaced Syrian women in southeast Turkey

Coping with Intersecting Vulnerabilities: Syrian Refugee Women Working in Textile Workshops in Istanbul

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