Social adaptation of syrian refugees in the European Union countries: Psychological aspects of the issue

Abstract

An increasingly relevant issue for the European Union policies is the constant increase in both irregular migrant, refugee, and legal migrant flows, which has a significant impact on the economic and political situation of these states. Such processes provoke an escalation of conflict within the country between the native population and migrants, which as a result negatively affects their social adaptation and psychological state and leads to a deterioration of the criminal situation in the respective territories and the spread of acts of intolerance. The purpose of the study is to analyse current European Union approaches to refugees, in particular those of Syrian origin, in the context of their social adaptation and psychological development. To achieve this goal, the study uses various scientific and methodological tools that allowed to fully disclose the issue under study and establish its main features. Thus, functional, and systematic methodological approaches were used in the study, along with logical methods of scientific research, such as the method of analysis and synthesis, the method of comparison, the method of deduction, the method of analysis of scientific literature. The main findings obtained from the research are the theoretical and practical foundations of the issue of the social adaptation of Syrian refugees in the European Union. The study has thus covered both the theoretical component, consisting of an interpretation of the basic concepts of the topic under investigation, along with their attributes and characteristics and the practical component, reflecting the dynamics of the increasing number of Syrian refugees, in particular, establishing the main reasons for this displacement and identifying the relevant measures taken by European Union governments to implement the social adaptation of such people. In subsequent developments on this subject, it would be useful to model effective means to support and socially develop refugees in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The practical value of this study lies in its potential to be used both in the development of different kinds of programmes for the social adaptation of refugees, and directly by ordinary citizens to encourage them to participate in voluntary organisations