A Research on Psycho-social Support and Future Expectations of the Syrian Female Asylum-Seekers Living in Turkey
A Research on Psycho-social Support and Future Expectations of the Syrian Female Asylum-Seekers Living in Turkey

Author(s): Ezgi Arslan, Elif Gökçearslan Çifci, Veli Duyan, Fulya Akgül Gök
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Psychology, Geography, Regional studies, Welfare systems, Studies in violence and power, Health and medicine and law, Present Times (2010 - today), Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Turkey; Syrian refugees; gender; women; asylum seekers; psycho-social support;
Summary/Abstract: Migration is the phenomenon of people’s leaving their areas of residence definitely or temporarily due to a number of reasons (IOM, 2009). Even though the term migration primarily connotes the movement of a particular population from one location to another, migration has a structure that is much more extensive and deep-rooted than mere geographic replacement (Aksu & Sevil, 2010). Today, rapidly changing environmental, economic, political, and social structures lead individuals and groups to migrating to settle in different regions. Based on classifications using different criteria, we may talk of types such as voluntary migration, forced migration, permanent or temporary migration, transit migration, illegal migration, and chain migration (Mutluer, 2003; Gündüz 1996 cited in Ilgaz & Tuzcu 2005). In the literature, internal migration is identified as the population movement between areas within the borders of the country and external migration is identified as movements of geographic replacement occurring towards neighbouring countries or even beyond (Şahin, 2001).

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