Aspirations among young refugees in Turkey
Social Class, Integration and Onward Migration in Forced Migration Contexts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3654166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aysen Ustubici (0000-0002-1498-0025, Koç University, corresponding author), Ezgi Elçi (0000-0003-3713-788X, Özyeğin University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 20 |
| Pages | 4865-4884 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.2022.2123433 |
| OpenAlex | W4304693640 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 38 |
The prevailing sentiment is that refugees desire to go to developed countries rather than stay in their first host country. Based on a critical reading of the literature on onward migration, this article analyzes the formation of aspirations for (im)mobility among young Syrian refugees in Turkey, considering their initial access to resources and integration. Our quantitative analysis suggests that obtaining legal status, satisfaction with life, perceived cultural similarities between the Turkish and Syrian communities, and hence perceived inclusion are the foremost drivers of aspirations to stay in Turkey. The analysis also shows that rather than migrants’ social class, migration-specific capital, such as a passport and networks abroad, drives onward migration aspirations. The qualitative analysis further unpacks the relationship between economic, cultural, and social capital as well as the subjective experience of integration and aspirations to move on or stay. Analyzing different trajectories, we highlight the importance of ‘start-up capital’ at the onset of displacement in shaping opportunities for settlement and future aspirations. Our discussion underscores that resources and opportunities explain onward mobility aspirations in protracted displacement contexts in relation to daily experiences of inclusion and to considerations regarding social class and social mobility in the future
Cultural capital · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economics · Forced migration · Political science · Refugee · Social capital · Social class · Social integration · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Turkish · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
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Class, migration and masculinity among Syrian and Turkish youths in working-class neighborhoods of Istanbul
Navigating parenthood in a new culture
Change and Continuity of Occupations Through Displacement
Forced Migrants’ Agency in a Life Course Approach—A Conceptual Proposal and Empirical Illustration
Migration aspirations in relation to border closures, employment opportunities and risk-taking attitudes
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Segmented Assimilation
Reconsidering Migration and Class
Loss and xenophobia in the city
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Introduction
Astray and Stranded at the Gates of The European Union
Cross-border mobility, transnationality and ethnicity as resources
Host State Engagement, Socioeconomic Class, and Syrian Refugees in Turkey and Germany
Understanding Immobility
Understanding Integration
The new 'twice migrants
Experiencing and resisting interwoven social boundaries
Negotiating class positions in proximate places of refuge
Class in camps or the camped class? The making and reshaping of socio-economic inequalities in the refugee camps of north-western Tanzania
Social class and forced migrants' perception of the value of international mobility
Spatial and social im/mobility in forced migration
Syrian refugees in Turkey
Beyond here and there
Migration in the age of involuntary immobility
Revisiting aspiration and ability in international migration
The 'Great Migration' of summer 2015
Aspiration, desire and drivers of migration
Onward migration from Spain to London in times of crisis
New Migrants' Social Integration, Embedding and Emplacement in Superdiverse Contexts
Why migration will continue
Does education 'trump' nationality? Boundary-drawing practices among highly educated migrants from Turkey
Between Opportunity and Constraint
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |