Abstract
Turkey has the highest number of refugees in the world and is currently home to 3.7 million Syrians who had to flee from their country due to the conflict that started in 2011. This paper aims to focus on the fertility and marriage preferences of Syrian refugees by using a widely used qualitative research method Focus Group Discussions. The main findings revealed that socio-demographic indicators, the departure and arrival conditions in home and host country and the current place of residence had affected how families and individuals adjusted themselves and how they changed their fertility and marriage plans since their arrival in Turkey. Yet, the main findings also showed that while forced migration caused normative changes on some, some others reacted and saw these changes just as a temporary adjustment.
Highlights
Turkey has the highest number of refugees1 in the world and is currently a host to 3.7 million Syrians who had to flee from the conflict that started in 2011
While Turkey counts 3.7 million Syrians among its inhabitants, the Table 1 shows where FGDs were collected which covered 61 per cent of all Syrians residing in Turkey4
As our contract was signed with World Food Programme (WFP), we provided the required technical support i.e., providing the FGD questionnaire and sampling and Turkish Red Crescent (TRC) teams were supporting in arranging participants and any other operational support
Summary
Turkey has the highest number of refugees in the world and is currently a host to 3.7 million Syrians who had to flee from the conflict that started in 2011. Many researchers, academicians and international organizations published on a variety of subjects focusing on the Syrian refugees. Despite the high number of publications and special issues about Syrian refugees including subjects such as policy-making, health, social protection and security (Tsourapas, 2019; Munajed and Ekren, 2020; Bozdag et al, 2021; Kurt et al, 2021), only a few them were focusing on the changes on fertility and marriage preferences (Korri et al, 2020; Mirwais et al, 2020; Sieverding et al, 2020; Çöl et al, 2020; Al Akash and Chalmiers, 2021).
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