During my fieldwork in Şanlıurfa for the RESPOND Project in the summer of 2018, I consistently heard that Syrians’ arrival to the city has contributed to the revitalization of the artistic and cultural landscape of this ancient city.
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Border management and migration controls have become a major political concern in Austria, particularly after the long summer of migration in 2015. The politicization of territorial borders led to a repeated prolongation of Schengen exemption provisions allowing for systematic border controls at two major checkpoints towards Slovenia and Hungary.
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In early 2017, the world held its breath as US president Donald Trump announced what became known as the #muslimban, an executive order which denied immigration to (Muslim) refugees from Syria and citizens of six other predominantly Muslim countries. The year before, at the height of the so-called refugee crisis,
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I am undergraduate psychology student at Ozyegin University, and I would like to tell you about my experience working with Dr. Susan Rottmann as one of her research assistants.
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As part of WP1, the UNIFI team has created a dataset providing economic, socio-political, cultural and legal indicators that identify and measure – on a comparative basis – those contextual factors that have a beneficial or inhibiting impact on responses to mass migration in RESPOND countries.
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On 31 January 2019, our RESPOND team at Uppsala University hosted its first popular seminar of the Spring semester with about 20 participants.
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“When I moved to Uppsala about one year ago, I could not foresee that my studies would turn towards migration studies soon and that I would be involved in a project of the size of RESPOND…”
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A vulnerability assessment study of Syrians in Istanbul that was conducted under my supervision by the Support to Life Association in 2016 found that around 87 percent of Syrians in Istanbul originated from the province of Aleppo, while only a small minority of 7.2 per cent came from Damascus. The ratio has not changed much since then. Many of our interlocutors that we interviewed in Istanbul in the summer of 2018 were also of Aleppo origin…
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