I am undergraduate psychology student at Ozyegin University, and I would like to tell you about my experience working with Dr. Susan Rottmann as one of her research assistants.
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A vulnerability assessment study of Syrians in Istanbul that was conducted under my supervision by the Support to Life Association in 2016 found that around 87 percent of Syrians in Istanbul originated from the province of Aleppo, while only a small minority of 7.2 per cent came from Damascus. The ratio has not changed much since then. Many of our interlocutors that we interviewed in Istanbul in the summer of 2018 were also of Aleppo origin…
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The 2015 Refugee crisis has been one of the most critical challenges the European Union has faced in the past decades. The crisis has revealed a number of criticalities, both at the level of the EU and at the level of member states, which determined severe deficiencies in the migration governance system…
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The 2015 Refugee crisis has been one of the most critical challenges the European Union has faced in the past decades. The crisis has revealed a number of criticalities, both at the level of the EU and at the level of member states, which determined severe deficiencies in the migration governance system…
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Many studies have described the legal regulations governing Turkey’s Syrians. The effect of these regulations on migrant families has received less attention, and yet during summer field work in 2018, respondents repeatedly highlighted the difficulties that they faced due to regulations preventing mobility…
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In his recent publication "Turkish Origin Migrants and Their Descendants", Ayhan Kaya proposes an interesting approach to the phenomenon of migration in the context of a transnational space constructed by immigrants of Turkish descent and their descendants who manoeuvre between the countries of settlement and origin…
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This Working Paper Series features the work of RESPOND researchers and is open to all scholars working on related topics…
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Discursive Frames of Aliens in Turkey: “Migrants”, “Guests”, and “Foreigners” By Ayhan Kaya (Istanbul Bilgi University, European Institute). The current state of Syrians residing in Turkey is mainly constrained by the ways in which the Turkish state actors have so far framed them…
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