PERCEPTIONS ABOUT ‘WAR MIGRANTS’ FROM SYRIA IN ANTAKYA: ANXIETY, FEAR, EMPATHY
PERCEPTIONS ABOUT ‘WAR MIGRANTS’ FROM SYRIA IN ANTAKYA: ANXIETY, FEAR, EMPATHY

Author(s): Mustafa Çapar
Subject(s): Anthropology, Geography, Regional studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Studies in violence and power, Health and medicine and law, Migration Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Turkey; migration; Antakya; war migrants; anxiety; fear; empathy; Syrian migrants; perceptions; judgements; health;
Summary/Abstract: The twentieth and twenty-first centuries are rightly called as ‘age of migrations’ (See Castles, Haas & Miller, 2014). Contemporary times witness the movements of people at a pace and scope never seen before. Though migration is nothing new: If we consider that the history of the dispersal of homo sapiens from Africa dates back around 150 thousand years, we can safely claim that human beings have been moving since their first appearance on earth.

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