How Covid‐19 financially hit urban refugees: evidence from mixed‐method research with citizens and Syrian refugees in Turkey

Elçi, Ezgi; Kirisçioglu, Eda; Üstübici, Ayşen

doi:10.1111/disa.12498

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“…The outbreak of COVID-19 further exacerbated the challenges Syrian refugees faced accessing healthcare in Turkey. Stereotypical representations of Syrian refugees during the pandemic by the local media ignored their specific health challenges [ 73 ], some of which included: loss of income as a result of stay-home directives leading to financial constraints and reducing their capabilities to access medical facilities [ 74 ]; the difficulties refugees had observing social distancing due to overcrowded and unsanitary urban refugee housing [ 75 ]; and the fear of losing their jobs and only source of income meant that many refugees would not report COVID-19 symptoms, thereby increasing the spread within their communities [ 76 ].…”

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Efficiency Analysis of Syrian Refugees’ Healthcare Services in Turkey and Other 3RP States

Achiri

Ibrahim

2022

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Access to healthcare for refugees is often contextually and conceptually diverse. This study set out to evaluate the efficiency of the healthcare services provided for Syrian refugees in Turkey and other refugee response and resilience plan (3RP) states. Data envelopment analysis is utilized for efficiency analysis using primary healthcare system indicators. Efficiency is broken down into pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency to identify causes of inefficiency. Normative analysis is used to employ a teleological approach to better understand current refugee healthcare policies. The findings show a decline in the overall efficiency for Turkey and other 3RP states. However, Turkey’s operational practices could be a model for other 3RP states due to its relatively high pure technical efficiency. Scale inefficiency negatively impacts the overall efficiency of Turkey’s service, while other 3RP states exhibit a rather consistent performance. The study concludes that Turkey’s healthcare system for refugees is inefficient, resulting in inadequate access for Syrian refugees. As such, operational and scale efficiency must be synergized for Turkey to fulfill its obligation to provide adequate healthcare for Syrian refugees. Additionally, COVID-19 was found to have exacerbated the challenges Syrian refugees face accessing healthcare. Policy recommendations have been made in line with the findings of the study.

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Efficiency Analysis of Syrian Refugees’ Healthcare Services in Turkey and Other 3RP States

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2022

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“…Overcrowded conditions during the pandemic not only limited most of the basic conditions required to engage in online higher education but also increased vulnerability to becoming infected (Hennebry & Hari, 2020) (with as many as 20 people sleeping in the same room) endured by the city's hundreds of thousands of migrant workers" living in Singapore (p. 4). Similarly, Elçi et al (2021) argued that refugees in Turkey mostly lived "in overcrowded and dilapidated dwellings with other family members", making "social distancing almost impossible" (p. 244). Gender inequality in accessing a mobile or tablet was also mentioned as a significant issue by Drolia et al (2022).…”

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Refugees’ experiences with online higher education: Impact and implications through the pandemic

2023

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This paper examines and discusses refugees' experiences with online higher education during COVID-19, a phenomenon which impacted millions of lives in displaced conditions. Through this, it unveils conditions, or lack thereof, of inclusivity as well as other unexpected concerns which have impacted refugees' experiences through a change to online higher education which was inevitable. A scoping review of the literature is conducted to identify relevant studies that explore refugees' experiences and challenges with online higher education during COVID-19. This has enabled an analysis which generates fresh insights into a lack of inclusion in online higher education opportunities for refugees and deeper levels of unrest impacting their experiences. As such, results are classified into three overarching themes: (1) Refugees, COVID-19, and online higher education; (2) multiplicity of barriers; (3) socio-economic status and mental health. The findings indicate that inadequate opportunities and access to online higher education persisted for refugees' during the pandemic, impacting not only the continuity of education but also social integration, financial stability, and mental wellbeing. Stemming from the findings and reflections on the research questions, this paper presents the importance of implications for policies and practice within this arena.

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“…A systematic literature review by Whitaker et al (2017) lists, for example, a total of 35 studies that have been published between 2012 and 2017 on medical and health research-related topics using Facebook advertisements to recruit participants. Other studies used ads on Facebook, and to a lesser degree Instagram, to survey, for example, voluntary and forced international migrants (Carlini et al 2015;Elçi, Kirisçioglu, and Üstübici 2021;Ersanilli and van der Gaag 2020;Pötzschke and Braun 2017), members of LGBTQ communities (Guillory et al 2018;Kühne and Zindel 2020), supporters of conspiracy myths (Iannelli et al 2018), and employees in specific sectors of the labor market (Schneider and Harknett 2019). Surveys targeting the general population in selected countries have, for instance, investigated opinions on climate change (Zhang et al 2020) and collected timely cross-national data during the COVID-19 pandemic (Grow et al 2020).…”

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Realizing a Global Survey of Emigrants through Facebook and Instagram

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2021

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Research on international migrants has seen a sharp increase during the last decades, yet sampling them remains a major challenge, especially in a cross-national setting and on a global scale. While various sampling methods are established in the field, most of them cannot easily be implemented globally due to their dependence on specific administrative or infrastructure elements or simply their costs. Since Social Networking Sites (SNS) operate on a global scale, they provide a sampling frame that can be utilized for the targeted recruitment of migrants worldwide. Increasingly used for research purposes and among the largest and most popular SNSs are Facebook and Instagram. In our project GEOOS (German Emigrants Overseas Online Survey), we utilize paid advertisements on these networks to target German emigrants, particularly Germans living outside of Europe. Our research aims to ascertain whether such ads could be used to recruit a nonprobability (migrant) sample on a global scale. More specifically, we are interested in the success of this approach concerning three performance indicators: Cost efficiency, coverage, and sample size. Our advertisement campaign ran for 18 days and resulted in total costs of about 2,223 Euro. This investment led a total of 3,895 individuals to complete the survey; of those, 98 percent belonged to the target population, meaning they were (a) either born in Germany or held German citizenship and (b) did not live in Germany. GEOOS participants lived in a total of 148 countries and territories around the globe. Similar to findings reported in previous studies on this target population, the largest sub-groups resided in predominantly Anglo-phone countries; however, taken together, participants in these countries only constitute 38 percent of our overall sample, with nearly a quarter of GEOOS participants (n = 867) living in Middle and South America, 862 residing in Asian countries, and 476 in Africa. Furthermore, a considerable share of our sample is constituted by individuals who would either not have been included in a sampling frame based on German population registers or who would have been unlikely to be reached through this method due to incomplete or outdated information.

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How Covid‐19 financially hit urban refugees: evidence from mixed‐method research with citizens and Syrian refugees in Turkey

Cited by 15 publications

References 26 publications

Efficiency Analysis of Syrian Refugees’ Healthcare Services in Turkey and Other 3RP States

Efficiency Analysis of Syrian Refugees’ Healthcare Services in Turkey and Other 3RP States

Refugees’ experiences with online higher education: Impact and implications through the pandemic

Realizing a Global Survey of Emigrants through Facebook and Instagram

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