Turkey has a significant asylum of Syrian refugees each year after civil war in Syria. Syrian ref... more Turkey has a significant asylum of Syrian refugees each year after civil war in Syria. Syrian refugees who seek asylum in Turkey are approximately three million person according to the official statistics. The majority enter through the Turkish government’s humanitarian asylum policy and a small percentage arrive seeking asylum for new chance. These processes have resulted in a considerable debate, which has usually been associated with negative attitudes within community. Previous studies have indicated that realistic (physical & economic) threats and symbolic (social cohesion & modernity) threats are important components of the integrated threat theory for understanding opposition towards immigrants and refugees. But the extending Integrative Threat Theory (ITT) suggests that the host country’s people can perceive refugees as both threatening and beneficial for the receiving society. The extending ITT also assumes that people’s appraisal of refugees can be influenced by the realistic (physical & economic) benefits and symbolic (cultural diversity & humanitarian) benefits of the refugees. On the other hand, the theory of human values assume that the personal value preferences affect individuals’ appraisal of refugees as representing a threat or beneficial for community. The purpose of the study is to examine the prevalence and correlates of all symbolic-realistic negative and positive attitudes towards refugees, and how does the personal value preferences affect threat-benefit perception. 650 participants comprised all Turkish regions will assess on a measure of symbolic and realistic threat-benefit scale and the Schwatrz’s personal value preferences scale. The results have confirmed that (1) Turkish people appraises the condition of Syrian refugees running away from the civil war and taking refugees in Turkey both as threat and benefit for themselves, (2) Turkish people’s threat and benefit perception has both realistic and symbolic appearances, (3) their personal value preferences and demographic characteristics, especially such as religiosity and education, are effective on threat or benefit appraisals regarding refugees and (4) the fact that both societies are members of the same religion and have similar cultural codes, even hard in short term, is the most important social ground to facilitate in long term the integration of Syrian refugees into the Turkish society.
Turkey has a significant asylum of Syrian refugees each year after civil war in Syria. Syrian ref... more Turkey has a significant asylum of Syrian refugees each year after civil war in Syria. Syrian refugees who seek asylum in Turkey are approximately three million person according to the official statistics. The majority enter through the Turkish government’s humanitarian asylum policy and a small percentage arrive seeking asylum for new chance. These processes have resulted in a considerable debate, which has usually been associated with negative attitudes within community. Previous studies have indicated that realistic (physical & economic) threats and symbolic (social cohesion & modernity) threats are important components of the integrated threat theory for understanding opposition towards immigrants and refugees. But the extending Integrative Threat Theory (ITT) suggests that the host country’s people can perceive refugees as both threatening and beneficial for the receiving society. The extending ITT also assumes that people’s appraisal of refugees can be influenced by the realistic (physical & economic) benefits and symbolic (cultural diversity & humanitarian) benefits of the refugees. On the other hand, the theory of human values assume that the personal value preferences affect individuals’ appraisal of refugees as representing a threat or beneficial for community. The purpose of the study is to examine the prevalence and correlates of all symbolic-realistic negative and positive attitudes towards refugees, and how does the personal value preferences affect threat-benefit perception. 650 participants comprised all Turkish regions will assess on a measure of symbolic and realistic threat-benefit scale and the Schwatrz’s personal value preferences scale. The results have confirmed that (1) Turkish people appraises the condition of Syrian refugees running away from the civil war and taking refugees in Turkey both as threat and benefit for themselves, (2) Turkish people’s threat and benefit perception has both realistic and symbolic appearances, (3) their personal value preferences and demographic characteristics, especially such as religiosity and education, are effective on threat or benefit appraisals regarding refugees and (4) the fact that both societies are members of the same religion and have similar cultural codes, even hard in short term, is the most important social ground to facilitate in long term the integration of Syrian refugees into the Turkish society.
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