Research of Local People’s Attitudes toward the Syrians in Turkey: A Case Study of Kahramanmaraş

Bekir Guzel ()
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Bekir Guzel: Recep Tayyip Erdogan Universitesi, Saglik Bilimleri Fakultesi, Sosyal Hizmet Bolumu, Rize, Turkiye

Journal of Social Policy Conferences, 2021, vol. 0, issue 81, 151-183

Abstract: Since the 2000s, international migration toward Turkey has been increasing. Particularly, because of the mass asylum requests on the Syrian border since 2011; in the present day, nearly four million Syrians live in Turkey. Here, a survey design was used to examine the attitudes of local people in Kahramanmaraş toward the Syrians. The “attitude scale of local people toward Syrians” developed by Özüdoğru, Kan, Uslu, and Yaman (2018) was used. Data collection was conducted using the convenience sampling method, and 405 participants were interviewed between 20 August and 30 November 2020. The data were collected from local people who volunteered to participate in the research and resided in Kahramanmaraş. As per the study results, it was determined that the local people’s attitude score toward Syrians did not show a significant difference (p>0.05) according to their gender, marital status, age groups, employment status, the number of members in their family, and hometown. However, a significant difference (p

Keywords: Turkey; Kahramanmaraş; Syrians; Local people; Attitude (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.26650/jspc.2021.81.899619

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