EV SAHİBİ HALKIN SURİYELİ GÖÇMENLERE YÖNELİK TUTUMU: İSTANBUL; SULTANBEYLİ- KADIKÖY İLÇELERİ

Abstract

In this thesis, it is planned to draw attention to socio-psychological chaos such as unrest, conflict and mismatch matters in the present and the future by examining local people’s prejudices, stereotypes, discriminations as the results of these cases in the context of threat perception related to psychological well-being. With regard to the actuality and importance of the subject, many studies have been carried out in the cities close to borders. However, it is essential to study this subject for a metropolitan city like Istanbul as well in order to Syrian refugees make four percent of the city’s population. It is believed that this thesis contributes meta analysis studies, Istanbul or Turkey based studies and interdisciplinary studies regarding to the subject. Sultanbeyli and Kadikoy districts in the Asian side of Istanbul is determined as areas of study from the point of view that prediction of threat shows some differences according to demographic structure. Survey study, sampling of 608 native inhabitants of districts in question; demographic form, Demirag and Hasta (2017)’s perception of threat scale, Social Contact Scale which was adapted into Turkish from Bogardus (1925) and Emotional Scale fro External Group (Stephan et al., 2003), have been applied with the methods of face-to-face interviews or filling forms sent through e-mail. The data obtained as a result of SPSS analysis shows that the threat percetion of local people against Syrian refugees differs according to demographic features, social contacts, mood states in Kadikoy and Sultanbeyli Districts of Istanbul.