Understanding the local dynamics of Syrian refugee integration through the eyes of refugees and local residents: the case of the Ȍnder Neighbourhood, Ankara

Kahraman, Z. Ezgi Haliloğlu; Güngördü, Feriha Nazda

doi:10.1080/14683857.2021.2013683

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“…Therefore, factors that promote integration include perceptions of opportunities, positive attitudes towards the other group, their culture, and integration, interpersonal trust, openness to diverse cultures, and positive intergroup connections. Conversely, integration processes are hindered by factors such as residents' distrust, derogation of refugees, or perceptions of threat (see, for example, Haliloğlu Kahraman & Güngördü, 2022), as well as social endorsement of structural discrimination in public services (for example in healthcare: Namer et al, 2020). Public attitudes towards policy changes regarding citizenship in Turkey suggest an urgent need to reconcile the imperative for integration with Syrian asylum seekers and the facilitation of their acceptance by the receiving society (Paker, 2019).…”

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Locals’ support for integration policies and asylum seekers’ rights: Exploring a normative model of support for Syrians in Turkey

Duman,

Coşkan

2023

Studies Ethnicity & National

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Syrian asylum seekers in Turkey have been trying to adapt to their new life circumstances despite unclear integration and resettlement policies and high levels of discrimination and exclusion. We argue that fostering integration and asylum seekers’ rights requires a bottom‐up normative approach that considers members of the receiving society as active agents of these processes. Accordingly, in this study, we investigated the role of normative social context as well as sociopsychological antecedents among citizens of Turkey in facilitating their support for governmental integration policies and Syrian asylum seekers’ rights. A survey study was conducted with 202 residents in three cities, namely Bursa, Mardin, and Hatay, representing different geographical, ethnic, and cultural components in Turkey (i.e., Turkish, Kurdish, Arab, and Kurdish‐Arab). We specifically examined how citizens’ life concerns, perceptions of pro‐diversity norms in their city, and generalized attitudes toward minorities relate to their support for integration policies and Syrians’ rights. Furthermore, we tested the mediating roles of valuing intergroup contact with Syrians as well as accepting their presence and opposing their assimilation. Serial mediation analyses indicated that generalized positive feelings toward other minority groups predict higher support for integration policies, Syrians’ rights, as well as higher expectations of support for Syrians from fellow citizens, first through valuing contact with Syrians and second, through higher acceptance of Syrians’ stay and lower expectations of assimilation. However, perceptions of pro‐diversity norms predicted lower support for integration policies, Syrians’ rights, as well as lower expectations of support for Syrians from fellow citizens, first through devaluing contact with Syrians and second, through lower acceptance of Syrians’ stay and higher expectations of assimilation. These findings suggest that attitudes toward existing minority groups can define the social context and sociopsychological antecedents that would foster Syrians’ adaptation to life by taking on board members of the receiving society. However, they also indicate caution regarding the taken‐for‐granted role of pro‐diversity beliefs among the residents, especially in societies with complex intergroup relations.

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Locals’ support for integration policies and asylum seekers’ rights: Exploring a normative model of support for Syrians in Turkey

Duman,

Coşkan

2023

Studies Ethnicity & National

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Understanding location choice of Syrian refugees from country to neighbourhood level: Opportunities, restrictions and expectations

Kahraman

2022

Habitat International

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(Non-state) actors in internal bordering and differential inclusion: Syrian refugees’ housing experience in Turkey

Sunata,

Güngördü

2024

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Understanding the local dynamics of Syrian refugee integration through the eyes of refugees and local residents: the case of the Ȍnder Neighbourhood, Ankara

Cited by 5 publications

References 30 publications

Locals’ support for integration policies and asylum seekers’ rights: Exploring a normative model of support for Syrians in Turkey

Locals’ support for integration policies and asylum seekers’ rights: Exploring a normative model of support for Syrians in Turkey

Understanding location choice of Syrian refugees from country to neighbourhood level: Opportunities, restrictions and expectations

(Non-state) actors in internal bordering and differential inclusion: Syrian refugees’ housing experience in Turkey

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