The economics of the Syrian refugee crisis in neighbouring countries: The case of Lebanon

David, Anda; Marouani, Mohamed Ali; Nahas, Charbel; Nilsson, Björn

doi:10.1111/ecot.12230

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“…On the contrary, many reports refer to a boom in different industries in Egypt due to the inflow of Iraqi and Syrian refugees' capital (Noureldin, 2017). Different reports also indicate clearly that migrants and refugees in Lebanon have positive impacts on the economic position of the country (David, Marouani, Nahas, & Nilsson, 2019). Furthermore, politicians, journalists, and media anchors also do not mention hate crimes, rape, abuse, and sexual harassment immigrants and refugees usually suffer.…”

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A Discourse-Historical Approach to Populism in the Right-Wing Discourse on Immigration

Omar¹,

Hamouda²,

Aldawsari³

2020

IJEL

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This study is concerned with investigating the implications of the new nationalist and populist discourse of the far right-wing movements to immigration in different Arab countries, with a focus on Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan. For this purpose, the study is based on a corpus of different genres, including political speeches, newspaper articles, as well as social media posts and comics. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is used in order to explore speakers’ ideologies and how rhetoric and discursive strategies are employed to influence public opinion and persuade citizens about certain views and policies and even prompt them to take the desired action. Results indicate that the new nationalist and populist discourse adopted by different politicians and far right-wing parties and movements have negative impact on the rights of migrants and refugees in Arab countries. Migrants and refugees are used as scapegoats for political gains. They are blamed for all social, economic, and political challenges and crises these countries are suffering today. Right-wing movements are embedding some hidden ideologies in their political discourse that are related to the hate and rejection of migrants and refugees. It can also be concluded that the increasing popularity of anti-immigration movements and radical right-wing political leaders hint at the influence of the nationalist and populist discourse on the public opinion in their countries. Populist discourse has led to fear and rejection of the “Other”, and even to racist acts and xenophobia.

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A Discourse-Historical Approach to Populism in the Right-Wing Discourse on Immigration

Omar¹,

Hamouda²,

Aldawsari³

2020

IJEL

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“…They report no adverse labor market outcomes for Jordanians living in the areas with a high level of concentration of refugees. David et al (2020) study the economic and social impacts of the Syrian war on Lebanon with a general equilibrium approach and conclude that the impact of influx of Syrian refugees depends on the skill composition of natives; although immigrants have positive impacts on high-skilled natives, they have negative impacts on medium or less-skilled natives.…”

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The Impact of Syrian Migration on Unemployment: Evidence from Turkey

Serttaş

Uluöz

2021

Adam Akademi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

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This study examines the labor market effects of the influx of the Syrian refugees in Turkey. Engle-Granger and Johansen co-integration tests, followed by the autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) bounds tests reveal that the Turkish unemployment and Syrian refugee series are co-integrated; pointing out to a long-run relationship. Shortrun and long-run dynamics have been analyzed from the fitted ARDL model and the error-correction parameter is used to examine the speed of convergence. Dynamic OLS (DOLS), fully modified least squares (FM-OLS) and canonical co-integrating regression (CCR) estimations are used to make inferences about the co-integration parameters. Empirical results show that there is a significant and negative relationship between the level of unemployment in Turkey and the number of Syrian refugees in the long-run, indicating that the influx of Syrian refugees has had a reducing effect on unemployment numbers in Turkey. Our results suggest that the Syrian refugees have acted as a complementary labor force to the existing Turkish labor force.

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“…over 11 million) as well as the number of people killed as a result of the war (i.e. about 700 000 people) (Ben-Meir, 2020; David et al, 2020). In spite of some evidence that a proxy war is also being fought in the country between the USA, Turkey, Russia and Iran, it is apparent that President Assad is increasingly restoring his authority across the country (Walther & Perdersen, 2020).…”

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Drivers and Persistence of Death in Conflicts: Global Evidence

2020

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We investigate persistence and determinants of deaths from conflicts in a sample of 163 countries for the period 2010–2015. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalized Method of Moments. First, the findings are contingent on income levels, religious domination, landlockedness, regional proximity, and legal origins. We find that the persistence of deaths in internal conflict is more apparent in coastal, French civil law, and Islam-oriented countries, compared to landlocked, English common law, Christian-oriented countries, respectively. Second, the following factors are generally responsible for driving deaths from internal conflicts: homicides, conflict intensity, and conflicts fought. Furthermore, incarcerations have negative effects on internal conflicts. Justifications for the established tendencies and policy implications are discussed.

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The economics of the Syrian refugee crisis in neighbouring countries: The case of Lebanon

Cited by 16 publications

References 29 publications

A Discourse-Historical Approach to Populism in the Right-Wing Discourse on Immigration

A Discourse-Historical Approach to Populism in the Right-Wing Discourse on Immigration

The Impact of Syrian Migration on Unemployment: Evidence from Turkey

Drivers and Persistence of Death in Conflicts: Global Evidence

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