Vulnerability and Protection of Refugees in Turkey

Cuevas, Pablo Facundo; Inan, Osman Kaan; Twose, Aysha; Çelik, Çiğdem

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“…This stipend was meant to provide 120 TL monthly to refugees selected based on need (Erdoğan, 2019, p. 13). There are various demographic criteria allowing involvement in the ESSN scheme, for example, a dependency ratio greater than or equal to 1.5 (essentially three dependents for every two able‐bodied adults), families with four or more children, elderly headed households, single‐parent households, and households with at least one member 40 per cent disabled, to name a few (Cuevas et al, 2019, p. 7). Due to these criteria, being granted aid is quite difficult.…”

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“…Due to these criteria, being granted aid is quite difficult. This also leads poverty rates among ESSN refugees to be very high, with roughly 88 per cent living in “poor or ‘nearly’ poor” conditions (where poor is defined as living below 284 TL per person per month and extremely poor 165 TL per person per month) (Cuevas et al, 2019, 20). Cuevas et al (2019) also observed that it is normal for ESSN households to reduce food intake in order to cope with living costs, with the adults often foregoing meals in favour of their children (p. 24).…”

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“…This also leads poverty rates among ESSN refugees to be very high, with roughly 88 per cent living in “poor or ‘nearly’ poor” conditions (where poor is defined as living below 284 TL per person per month and extremely poor 165 TL per person per month) (Cuevas et al, 2019, 20). Cuevas et al (2019) also observed that it is normal for ESSN households to reduce food intake in order to cope with living costs, with the adults often foregoing meals in favour of their children (p. 24). Because the eligibility rules of ESSN support stipulate that refugees should not be enrolled in social security, many refugees turn in effect to informal work or borrowing money rather than formal work to meet basic needs (Cuevas et al, 2019, p. 28).…”

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“…to cover basic needs(Leghtas, 2019, p. 14) Cuevas et al (2019). report in a similar vein that in the average ESSN household just over half of school-age children are attending school and in more than a quarter of ESSN households, none of the children are attending school (p. 23).…”

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Refugee life, refugee space: Ankara as a bottom‐up alternative

Dell

2022

International Migration

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During research conducted in the summer of 2020, I observed the advanced marginality of the refugees in Ankara, Turkey. While some authors have examined this precarity, and some others have examined how refugees have begun to live in a spatially distinct section of certain cities, the combination of these two phenomena demands further investigation. If the underpinning truly is spatial as claimed by Lefebvre (The production of space. Oxford and Cambridge: Blackwell, 1991), then the precarious subject and the precarious space co‐produce each other. What this paper intends to do is to combine space and precarity using the observations of Wacquant (Urban poverty and the underclass: a reader. Oxford and Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996, Urban Studies, 2016, 53, 1077) in his various analyses on the ghetto in France and the United States. In Wacquant's work, we can begin to see a spatial conception of precarity, and we can further extend this to the point that as space is a production and its subjects are also a co‐constitution of that space. Nevertheless, Sampson (Ethnic & Racial Studies, 2014, 37, 1732) points out a certain state centrism in Wacquant's analysis. Building upon this, as well as the work of Roy (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2011, 35, 223 and Territories of poverty: rethinking north and south. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015), we can offer the refugee neighbourhood in Ankara as an example of “bottom‐up” agency, alternative to Wacquant's original state‐centric analysis. In the course of this paper, this possibility of a “bottom‐up” refugee solidarity and related refugee space will be analysed.

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“…The pre-assistance baseline survey (PAB) was conducted with a stratified random sample of 8,690 applicant households, after the decision on their eligibility was made, but before any assistance was provided. The sample was drawn from over 268,000 assessed eligible and ineligible applications, representing 1.6 million individuals, nearly 50% of the refugee population during the first half of 2017 (Cuevas et al 2019). The sample was stratified by region, which included Istanbul, Aegean, Anatolia/Thrace, Mediterranean, and South-East (Appendix Figure 1).…”

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Children on the move: Progressive redistribution of humanitarian cash transfers among refugees

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Just after the local elections in 2019, irregular migrants in Istanbul faced a months-long crackdown. The Ministry of Interior from the Justice and Development Party government (known as AK Party or AKP) gave Syrians until 20 August 2019 to return to the cities in which they were first registered. Although the time period was eventually extended, the internal controls for migrants became stricter. Migrants found themselves frequently stopped by police, and officers visited registration addresses to check if they were occupied. If irregularities were discovered, the official directive was that Syrians should be returned to the cities in which they were first registered. For non-Syrian migrants without registration, the result of police stops was often being confined to pre-detention centres. According to the Head of the Directorate General Management of Migration (DGMM) of the time, Abdullah Ayaz, “Operations in Istanbul target irregular migrants such as Afghans and Pakistanis. Even if Syrians are found without registration at all, they are not deported, unlike the claims in the media. It is not possible to issue deportation decisions legally about Syrians due to the conditions in Syria” (AA 2019).

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Vulnerability and Protection of Refugees in Turkey

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Refugee life, refugee space: Ankara as a bottom‐up alternative

Refugee life, refugee space: Ankara as a bottom‐up alternative

Children on the move: Progressive redistribution of humanitarian cash transfers among refugees

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