Newton RCUK-TUBITAK Integration and Well-Being of Syrian Youth in Turkey

该项目旨在评估土耳其境内叙利亚难民青年的需求，并为他们的融入提供具体的政策建议。最近对土耳其境内叙利亚人的所有研究都表明，由于长期冲突，他们的身份正逐渐从难民转变为移民。虽然土耳其政府对来自邻国的难民保持“门户开放”政策，但他们也没有为大规模的外流或战争的持续时间做好准备。因此，土耳其政府目前正在努力制定有效的政策，以应对可能影响土耳其未来发展和地区稳定的危机。我们的项目侧重于难民人口中最脆弱的群体之一：未来被搁置的青年。15至30岁的青年本可以上大学或进入就业市场，但许多人发现他们的教育和培训计划，或结婚和建立家庭的计划必须推迟。该项目将评估他们的背景，包括教育水平和技能;他们的教育、工作和健康需求;以及他们对未来的看法。我们的目标是为社会和经济一体化制定具体的组织和政策建议，表明土耳其的叙利亚青年可能不会被视为累赘的“客人”，而是可以为国家发展做出贡献的人力资本。该项目将评估教育和医疗保健等服务的提供和获取情况，并将采用比较和历史方法，从其他国家和土耳其自己过去对大规模难民紧急情况的反应中吸取经验教训。此外，我们将绘制目前在土耳其工作的各种地方，区域，国家和国际政府，志愿者和人道主义组织的地图，以了解难民如何以及为什么使用这些组织获得服务。这将使我们能够评估政府的反应和反应留下的差距。我们特别关注的两个问题是受教育的机会和进入劳动力市场的过渡，这对所研究的年龄组尤其重要。难民青年接受教育的能力将在土耳其的近期内发挥关键作用，因为这将决定土耳其是否能够充分利用这一庞大的年轻人口所代表的人力资本。假设难民至少在中期内可能会留在土耳其，那么，该项目旨在改善难民青年获得教育、医疗服务和劳动力市场的机会，以确保这些年轻人口将为土耳其的增长做出贡献，而不是成为土耳其发展的障碍。这项研究是紧迫的，因为数十万叙利亚青年的未来目前处于危险之中。虽然有一些研究试图评估融合问题，并警告说，如果不加以解决，将有巨大的危险，但迄今为止，还没有任何研究系统地审查正在从童年向成年过渡、目前正在作出将影响其未来的决定的关键年龄组。这一群体也将在今后几年关于返回原籍国的决定中发挥关键作用。该项目填补了关于这场人道主义危机的研究空白，因为到目前为止，由于数据的紧迫性和缺乏，必须对不断变化和需求不断变化的人口迅速作出反应。RCUK-TUBITAK赠款为期30个月，将为来自两所主要大学的研究小组提供机会，系统地收集和分析有关危机的数据，并研究这些结果如何随着时间的推移而变化，从而提供可靠的研究数据基础。

The project aims to assess the needs of Syrian refugee youth in Turkey and to provide concrete policy recommendations for their integration. All recent studies of the Syrian population in Turkey indicate that their status is gradually shifting from refugee to immigrant as a result of the prolonged conflict. While the Turkish government has maintained an 'open door' policy regarding refugees from their neighbouring country, they also were not prepared for the scale of the exodus or the length of the war. As a result, the Turkish government is currently struggling to formulate effective policies to deal with a crisis that threatens to impact both Turkey's future development and regional stability. Our project focuses on one of the most vulnerable groups within the refugee population: youth whose futures are being put on hold. Youth between 15 and 30 years of age would have attended university or entered the job market, but many are finding that their plans of education and training, or marrying and building a family, must be deferred. The project will assess their background, including educational level and skills; their educational, work, and health needs; and their visions of the future. We aim to develop concrete organisational and policy suggestions for social and economic integration show how Syrian youth in Turkey may be viewed not as burdensome 'guests' but as human capital that can contribute to the country's development. The project will assess delivery and access to services such as education and healthcare, and will employ a comparative and historical approach that takes lessons from other states' and from Turkey's own past responses to mass refugee emergencies. Moreover, we will map the various local, regional, national and international governmental, voluntary, and humanitarian organisations currently working in Turkey in order to understand how and why refugees use these organisations to access services. This will allow us to evaluate the government response and gaps left by that response. Two of our particular concerns are access to education and transition into the labour market, especially critical for the age group under study. The ability of refugee youth to access education will play a critical role in Turkey's immediate future, as it will determine whether or not Turkey will be able fully to make use of the human capital represented by this large, young population. Assuming that refugees are likely to remain in Turkey at least in the medium term, then, the project aims to improve access of refugee youth to education, health services, and the labour market in order to insure that this young population will contribute to Turkey's growth rather than become an impediment to its development.This research is urgent, because the future of hundreds of thousands of Syrian youth is currently in danger. While a number of studies have attempted to assess integration problems and have warned of the immanent dangers of leaving them unaddressed, no study to date has systematically examined the critical age group that is transitioning from childhood to adulthood and currently making decisions that will shape their futures. This will also be the group that will play a critical role in decisions about return to the home country in future years. The project responds to a research gap regarding this humanitarian crisis, because the urgency and lack of data has so far dictated quick responses regarding populations that are constantly changing and whose needs are shifting. The thirty-month period of the RCUK-TUBITAK grant will provide research teams from two leading universities the opportunity systematically to collect and analyse data on the crisis and examine how those results may change over time, hence providing a base of reliable research data.