Досвід дослідження адаптації біженців у зарубіжній літературі

Abstract

Today, the problem of forced migration due to military conflicts is becoming quite popular among foreign researchers. Many scientists, specialists and representatives of various scientific schools and directions are engaged in the study of these processes. The topic of Bosnian migrants became relevant in the early 2000s. The adaptation problems of Syrian refugees began to be actively highlighted in 2011. Today, the topic of Ukrainian refugees is still relevant. Researchers began to study it almost immediately after the Russian large-scale invasion of Ukraine. The purpose of the article is to analyze the experience of researching the problems of adaptation of refugees on the pages of various foreign scientific publications. The article pays special attention to highlighting their approaches and methods, highlighting non-standard solutions and analyzing shortcomings in the study of adaptation processes of refugees in all the multifaceted aspects of this current world phenomenon. The topics of integration and adaptation of forced migrants fleeing military conflicts are most relevant among foreign researchers. Traditionally, they use the most common method of qualitative and/or quantitative study using structured or semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, online surveys. The «snowball method» is very popular among them. Methods of encoding and protecting information obtained from refugees are quite often used in foreign research. Current areas of research are the study of refugees of different origins in a single country and the study of the experience of refugees over different years. Numbers of shortcomings inherent in those dynamic foreign’s researches have been identified. The analysis of them may help to improve the investigation of the adaptation of refugees in future