You might be invited to the following Migration Speak organized by the Jean Monnet Chair in Authorized Elements of Migration Administration within the European Union and in Türkiye.
Audio system: Dr. Hamed Abdollahpour Ranjbar (Istinye College), Khaled Elazab, MA (Clark College), Yomna Nassar, MA (Koç College), Farah Amayreh (Koç College), Dr. Ibrahim Yigit (Florida State College), Prof. Dr. Janet Molzan Turan (Koç College), and Prof. Dr. Bülent Turan (Koç College)
Title:Stigma within the Lives of Refugees Dwelling in Turkey
Date and Time: Monday, Could 4, 2026 – 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM (Turkish Time)Occasion Location: by way of Zoom (The Zoom hyperlink shall be offered upon request: migration@bilkent.edu.tr)
The occasion can be held in English.
AbstractThe analysis is carried out with Syrian and Afghan refugees residing in Istanbul, Turkiye to discover and study results of stigma and microaggressions in these populations.It’s primarily based on 8 focus teams individually for women and men, 4 teams with Syrian refugees and 4 with Afghan refugees, with 4-10 members in every group. Members shared that stigma and microaggressions have been central forces shaping each dimension of their every day life, well-being, and future plans. The depth and ubiquity of those experiences appeared to exceed what is often documented in different stigmatized populations, owing partly to the visibility and politicization of refugee identification within the present sociopolitical local weather in Türkiye, which permits and condones stigma and microaggressions towards these populations. Refugees described that they and their youngsters skilled psychological and bodily well being issues not solely because of trauma and difficulties confronted earlier than and through migration, but additionally because of post-displacement stigma and microaggressions that they skilled every day. Refugees employed a variety of coping methods to cope with these challenges, avoidance of interactions with Turks, types of identification concealment (e.g., not revealing nationality, altering names, or not talking their native language in public), avoidance of confrontation, and in some circumstances educating their neighbors to confront and proper stereotypes.
Within the quantitative part of the analysis, the analysis group developed the Refugee Stigma Scale (RSS) knowledgeable by the literature and qualitative and quantitative information. The size contains 4 theoretical dimensions of stigma: perceived neighborhood stigma, skilled stigma, anticipated stigma, and internalized stigma. In a pattern of 404 Syrian and 447 Afghan refugees in Türkiye, confirmatory issue evaluation supported the hypothesized four-factor construction of the RSS. Outcomes additionally supported convergent validity of the 4 subscales displaying correlations with validated measures of despair, nervousness, post-traumatic stress dysfunction (PTSD), somatic signs, post-migration difficulties, and get in touch with experiences.
The analysis group additionally developed a subscale assessing microaggressions (delicate/ambiguous discriminatory remarks or behaviors). Convergent validity of the Microaggression Scale for Refugees (MSR) was supported by excessive correlations between microaggressions and skilled stigma, somatic signs, post-migration difficulties, and get in touch with experiences with the host nation. Importantly, each skilled stigma and microaggressions contributed independently to explaining variance in psychological and somatic signs.
It is usually explored the idea of identification denial within the context of refugee stigma utilizing the brand new scales. Even after a few years of immigrating, immigrants can have their new cultural identification (on this case, their Turkish identification) denied or unacknowledged. Based mostly on a survey of 156 younger Syrian adults residing in Türkiye for a few years, the analysis discovered that Turkish identification denial was related to greater depressive signs and decrease psychological well-being, mediated by perceived and anticipated stigma. Moreover, a challenged sense of belonging was an impartial parallel mediating mechanism by which identification denial was related to psychological well-being and depressive signs.
