Göçmenler ve Mülteciler Arasında COVID-19 Salgınının Etkili Bir Şekilde Kontrol Altına Alınması: Dünya Sağlık Örgütü

Abstract

The ongoing Corona Virus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to advance with each day and it is worth noting that no individual, community, population group or nation is immune to the infection. Migrants and refugees constitute a vulnerable population group and this calls for the urgent need to include migrants and refugees in the action plan made for the containment of the infection and ensure that no compromises are made with regard to their right to attain the highest levels of physical & mental health. In conclusion, it is very clear that if we want to overcome the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be needing a whole-of-community approach, partnerships with various sectors, which essentially includes the inclusion of migrants and refugees. The need of the hour is to extend all the prevention and control activities to the vulnerable population groups and ensure that the risk of acquisition or transmission of infection can be minimized.

An Analysis of Refugee-Specific Online Contents During the Pandemic

“…The predominance of the theme "refugees as a threat" implies a sort of avoidance from refugees and isolating them from society, which is called racism/discrimination in the literature (Roychowdhury, 2020;Koç, 2020). The second main theme reflecting the unfair treatment of refugees is often discussed in the literature (Shrivastava and Shrivastava, 2020;Diad and Nabulski, 2020). "Lack of support for Turkey about the refugee problem" was a common issue mentioned in the literature as well.…”

“…The most common sub-theme of the contents is "difficult living conditions of refugees", which supports the literature that discusses difficult lives and unfair treatment of refugees (Tanış, 2020). "EU countries' reluctance to host refugees" is not a popular topic in the literature; however, the next most common sub-themes, which are "Covid-19 support for the refugees is a must" and "it is necessary to quarantine the refugees" have been studied and discussed in the literature by researchers (Shrivastava and Shrivastava, 2020). "Refugees' continuing attempts to enter Greece and the violence they are inflicted to", which is a dimension of unfair treatment of refugees, is also another sub-theme mentioned in the literature (Koç, 2020).…”

“…Krippendorff (2004, p. 18), who considerably contributed to the terminology of the content analysis method used in the analysis of communication, art, and literature studies, defines content analysis as "a research technique aiming to make reliable and valid implications from written texts or other types of discourse". Before the categorization, an interview was conducted with the coders to discuss which main theme will be used to code about the related literature (Shrivastava and Shrivastava, 2020;Tanış, 2020;Brandenberger et al 2020). In the first phase, 20 contents were coded by the coders and the consistency between the coders was calculated in percentages.…”