Explanation of the Perceptions on Children’s Rights of Syrian Refugee Students Studying at Primary School with Experience

Abstract

Syrian citizens who took refuge in our country after years of civil war have social, cultural, and economic problems. The most problematic segments are children. Children also lack the use of their fundamental rights in addition to these compliance problems. The aim of the present study was to conduct research on the Syrian refugee students' perceptions of children's rights. In the study, explanatory sequential design was preferred among mixed method designs. The scale was applied to 178 students. In the qualitative part, eight of the students to whom the scale was applied were selected, and semi-structured interviews were conducted. With these interviews, it was aimed to determine the perceptions of the students about children's rights based on their experiences. As a data collection tool, the ''Asylum Seeker Students' Perception of Children's Rights Scale'' developed by the researcher and semi-structured interview questions were used. The SPSS package program was used in the analysis of quantitative data. As a result of the scale data, no significant difference could be found in the perceptions of the Syrian refugee students regarding children's rights according to gender, age, class level, and duration of living in Turkiye. There was a significant difference in the number of siblings variable. It was determined that this difference was different between the group that was marked '' I have no siblings'' and the other groups. As a result of the study, suggestions were made to work with different refugee children and to give more importance to the issue of children's rights in the Turkish education system.