Author(s): Fulya AKGÜL GÖK Ezgi ARSLAN ÖZDEMIR**
Migration has become among the most emerging topic as escalating local conflicts and poverty in the World. In this study, specifically, it is aimed at understanding and revealing Syrian women’s psychosocial states and their effects, living in Turkey which hosts the most refugee and asylum seekers in the Word because of conflicts and war in the neughboring Middle East. 13 Syrian women have been interviewed in order to gather information and insight on these women’s experiences and lives of premigration, during migration and after migration. Syrian women have experienced problems of adaptation, language, finding someone to look after their children, being a foreigner, social and psychological stress. Also they have had deep sorrow about leaving their country, families, relatives and children. In Turkey they’ve faced problems with shelter, education, food and employment, and safety needs have been the most urgent one. It’s also founded out that the Syrian women have developed their own managing strategies and maintained gender based roles.
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