Browsing by Subject "Refugee crisis"

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The European Union’s crises and the resilience of EU societies
(Routledge, 2022-07-25) Sefer, Özlem
Resilience is one of the most popular and yet ambiguous topics in the social sciences. It has been examined not only in an individual sense but also in relation to communities. The European Union (EU) has faced several crises in the 2000s that have shown the level of resilience of EU societies. This paper discusses community resilience within the framework of the EU’s recent crises to examine how EU societies have coped with adversity. Specifically, it analyses competences and common policies at the EU level in relation to resilience and crises within the EU.
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No country for young refugees: barriers and opportunities for inclusive refugee education practices
(Sage Publications, Inc., 2024) Demir, Sebnem Manolya; Sahinyazan, Feyza G.; Kara, Bahar Yetiş; Buluc, Elfe
The recent refugee crises in Ukraine (2022) and Syria (2011) have created millions of refugees, 40% of whom are children. The education systems of countries hosting refugees struggle to integrate such large populations. In addition, language barriers and the stigma associated with refugees hamper inclusive and equitable education opportunities for these children. There is thus a risk of "lost generations" distanced from education, who may eventually depend on social security systems and monetary aid in the long term. This study considers the following research question: How can a host country improve the inclusion of refugee children in the education system without overburdening its infrastructure? First, we document the availability and accessibility challenges and opportunities that refugee children face during the Syrian refugee crisis. We then develop an inclusive planning strategy aligned with existing capacity and resources and formulate two adaptations of the maximum covering problem (MCP): cooperative capacitated MCP with heterogeneity constraints (CCMCP-HC) to improve the current schooling access in T & uuml;rkiye and Modular CCMCP-HC to guide early planning in the case of a future crisis. Our computational analyses illustrate that the proposed approach yields higher schooling rates and capacity utilization than existing approaches. Our results emphasize the importance of having a planning strategy in the initial phases of a crisis that considers future integration possibilities. This study analyzes T & uuml;rkiye's experience and lessons learned to provide a road map for other ongoing and future refugee crises.
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Revisiting the European refugee crisis of 2015: a post-functionalist analysis
(2020-07) Şeneri, Alara
In 2015, the EU faced the most severe and intense refugee crisis since the Second World War. As a result, a divided EU emerged, which prevented it from finding a common solution to the refugee problem. Accordingly, the EU started to pursue a policy of externalization in its migration agenda to seek a solution outside its borders. Cooperation processes between the EU and third countries in this case are expressed frequently to define the externalization policy of the EU in the literature. Nevertheless, there is a need to explain the EU’s main motivation to externalize the migration issue beyond its borders and outsource the burden of the problem to third countries. For that purpose, this thesis presents an explanation through the postfunctionalist theoretical framework by using the concept of “constraining dissensus”. It argues that increasing xenophobia among the public opinion and farright political parties have created a constraining dissensus within and among the EU member states, which has been affected by a shaping context; identity politics. The thesis argues that this dissensus is the driving force behind the EU’s externalization-oriented migration agenda and it offers an analysis of public opinion surveys, particularly the European Commission’s Eurobarometer data, and official EU documents with regard to the EU-Turkey cooperation process, to provide an explanation of the EU’s externalization policy during the refugee crisis of 2015. In the time of constraining dissensus, the EU believes that the externalization-oriented migration policy is the most convenient path to rely on.