Syrian Refugees in Turkey

This book examines the changing demographic situation of Syrian refugees and the host community in Turkey, one of the major refugee hosting countries in the world, relying on a recent representative dataset. Conflicts and the resulting unrest force people to flee their countries and take refuge in foreign lands. Such refugee movements across the world have increased significantly in recent times. Turkey accounts for the greatest refugee population in the world today. This has drastically impacted the Turkish demographics, leading to different demographic situations in refugee communities in the country. This book presents an in-depth research on the impact of forced displacement on the demographic behaviour of Syrian refugees in Turkey in general, and more specifically the way transformed family structures, unregistered children, fertility behaviours and early marriages impacted their lives. The book also contributes to the existing knowledge and discourse on refugee integration by shedding light on their experiences related to access to labour market opportunities and education opportunities, wellbeing and mobility. It also helps in linking demography of Syrian community to the socio-economic challenges in Turkey by means of incorporating crucial demographic variables into the analysis. Offering valuable insights into various dimensions of life, this book has an interdisciplinary appeal and will thus be a key resource for academics and scholars of demography, refugee studies, migration studies and sociology. It will also be a valuable and unique reference work for people in governments, international agencies and non-governmental organizations.

Alanur Çavlin is faculty member of the Institute of Population Studies at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. Her research interests are registration systems, surveillance, demography of ethnicity, abortion and child abuse. She is the project director of 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey. .

1.Introduction Part 1: Demographic Structure 2. Citizenship, De Facto Statelessness, and Birth Registration of Syrian Migrants in Turkey 3.The Impact of Conflict-Induced Migration on Family Structure of Syrian Refugees in Turkey: A Comparative Analysis of Pre-Conflict and Post-Conflict Periods, 2006-2018 Part 2: Women and Child Health 4. Timing of Reproductive Events Among Host Community and Syrian Refugee Women in Turkey: An Event History Analysis from Menarche to Menopause 5. Child, Early and Forced Marriages Among Syrian Migrant Women in Turkey 6. Fertility Behavior of Syrian Women in Turkey: The Crosscut of Intention and Regulation Part 3: Integration and Inclusion 7. Syrian Children in Focus: Early School Leaving and Integration into the Turkish Education System 8. Syrians In Labor: A Matter of Integration Through Informality 9. Objective and Subjective Well-being Profiles of Syrian Migrants 10. Internal Movement of Syrian Refugees in Turkey Part 4: Future Implications 11. Projections for the Syrian Population in Turkey 12. The Early Childhood Development of Syrian Children in Turkey 13. Conclusion