The Reflection of Discrimination and Gender on Labour Rights: Syrian Women in Turkey- A Comparative Analysis
The Reflection of Discrimination and Gender on Labour Rights: Syrian Women in Turkey- A Comparative Analysis

Author(s): Aysel Ebru Okten, Itır Aladag Gorentas
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Labor relations, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Turkey; Syrians; gender; labour rights; Syrian Women;
Summary/Abstract: Turkey has been home to displaced Syrians since April 2011. Today Syrian community in Turkey is close to 4 million and women generate 45 % of it. In time, expected temporariness has begun to evolve to permanency and each individual has to find their way through the crisis. Though legal regulations such as Law on Foreigners and International Protection and its Temporary Protection Regulation, European Convention on Human Rights and dubious EU- Turkey Statement of 2016 confer labour rights to some extent, it is of common knowledge that Syrians generally work undocumented and this situation make them even more vulnerable.

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