Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Yeşilyurt Gündüz Z., Gürhan C.(Yürütücü), Armağan A., Ömeroğlu Ö. Z., Gürün Z.
Yükseköğretim Kurumları Destekli Proje, 2022 - 2022
In terms of migration routes and transit countries, Turkey is one of the most preferred countries for refugees due to its geopolitical location and hosts citizens from many different nationalities. Since the start of the Syrian “Crisis” in March 2011, in which approximately six and a half million people were forcibly displaced and thirteen and a half million people in need of humanitarian assistance (UNHCR, 2019), Turkey has followed an open-door policy. According to the latest data, the number of Syrian refugee children aged 10-18 under temporary protection registered in Turkey is 682 thousand 382 (Mülteciler Derneği, 2021). Young people fleeing the war and coming to Turkey as refugees are struggling to start a new life and encounter many obstacles in different fields such as housing, access to health services, and education. The literature review revealed that out of 4 million registered refugees in Turkey, there are 680.000 children enrolled in school, while nearly 400.000 children cannot have access to education (UNICEF, 2019). Language problems, economic difficulties, and access to school are presented as the biggest factors that create educational barriers. However, althoughthese reasons exemplify the difficulties that refugees face in obtaining education, the main question of this proposed research is to examine refugee girls and boys aged 12-18 with specific emphasis on their schooling and address the question of what are the ways in which their access to education is hindered. This age range has been preferred because primary education is compulsory in Turkey, but secondary education is not, and the 12-18 age range is compatible with the adolescence age. To focus more clearly, participation in secondary education can be compatible with the socio-economic status and personal views of the families. The most frequent rate of child and forced marriage is included in this scope due to adolescence, which in this context can also be an obstacle to participation in secondary education and is compatible with the personal views or socio-economic conditions of the family. Therefore, the study aims to examine the reasons behind refugee children’s low level of schooling with a gender lens. It will be conducted in Ankara, which is preferred due to its cheapness and other working opportunities (Bakioğlu, Artar and İzmir 2018) compared to Istanbul. The project aims to reach refugees through the support of the “Earth is Home International Solidarity Association”, a NGO working with refugees, and to advance by using the focus group research technique by providing the refugees with the place where the meetings will be held, together with the support of the association. With their support throughout the conduct of the study, it is planned to meet with 20 refugee families who approved participating in the focus group discussions. The focus group discussions will be held in March 2022. Afterward, the data will be analyzed based on psychological, social, and economic reasons and those differences will be compared with reference to the literature on gender inequalities in schooling, especially in the field of forced migration.