The impact of social adjustment policy on Syrian refugees

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the impact of social adjustment policy on Syrian refugees, whereas the study population is composed of all Syrian refugees in Jordan. The sample of refugees in different regions of Jordan was surveyed (1675 in total). In order to achieve the objective of the study, the social adjustment scale was constructed in the final form of 20 items. After confirming its validity and stability, it was applied to the sample. The results show that the impact of the social adjustment policy on Syrian refugees in Jordan depends on gender factors, duration of asylum, and the place of residence, but does not depend significantly on the education level. Social adaptation more characterizes men, and there are significant differences between the level of social adaptation in Badia, as well as between urban residences and in rural ones.

Defining Adjustment to Address the Missing Link between Refugees and Their Resettlement Communities

“…Psychosocial adjustment identifies connections and social support of refugees within the resettlement community. Moreover, 35 articles explored this specific domain of the social dimension of adjustment [ 28 , 36 , 41 , 53 , 55 , 57 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 82 , 83 , 84 , 85 , 86 ].…”

“…Al-Srehan [ 79 ] explored the Syrian refugee perceptions, regarding the effectiveness of the Jordan resettlement policies. According to the study results, those who resettled in a city had a “higher effectiveness” perception of the resettlement policies compared to those who resettled in a village.…”

“…The number of years spent within the resettlement country is cited as a factor influencing the adjustment of refugees in five out of twenty studies [35,53,79,102,103]. Time had a positive impact on employment, financial and residency conditions, access to healthcare services, engagement in social relationships (both with the heritage and the resettlement community), and on life satisfaction.…”

The EPL index, youth unemployment and emigration within the EU

“…In the long-term view, migration has negative impacts on source economies, particularly when migrants are permanently settled in the host economy. In the wake of the economic recovery, the emerging economy is thus losing labour, tax revenues and social insurance (Boeri, 2009, Barell et al, 2010, while the problem of migrants' social protection remains in the host economies (Al-Srehan, 2020); at the same time, the problem of the aging population deepens (Esping-Andersen, 1999, Rindfuss et al Andersson, 2001. In addition, migration leads to the phenomenon of the so-called brain drain (Mountford, 1997, Borjas, 2000, OECD, 2017b in the case of skilled, trained and educated people, which, in the long-term view, limits the growth potential of source economies.…”

Here to stay?: Understanding positive and negative attitudes towards Syrian refugees in Turkey

“…Third, the majority of the research on attitudes towards immigrants and refugees has been conducted in Western contexts (i.e., Western Europe, North America, Australia). There are only a few examples of research conducted in non-Western contexts such as the Middle East (e.g., Al-Srehan, 2020;Ceyhun, 2020;Tartakovsky & Walsh, 2016) and the Caucasus (Makashvili et al, 2018). Further, research conducted in Western contexts shows that perceived threat and a competitive setting (Landmann et al, 2019), strong national (Anderson & Ferguson, 2018) and ethnic majority group identifications (Vanbeselaere et al, 2006;Verkuyten, 2009a), economic decline (Coenders et al, 2008), and high numbers of immigrants are some of the important predictors of negative attitudes towards newcomers (McLaren, 2003;Semyonov et al, 2006;Kunovich, 2004).…”