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Reflections on Kahramanmaraş and Hatay Earthquakes: Evaluating Syrian Refugees' Location Choices in terms of Earthquake Hazards and Risks

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dc.contributor.author Kahraman Haliloglu, Zerrin Ezgi
dc.date.accessioned 2024-09-30T07:11:33Z
dc.date.available 2024-09-30T07:11:33Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.identifier.citation Kahraman Haliloglu, Zerrin Ezgi (2023). "Reflections on Kahramanmaraş and Hatay Earthquakes: Evaluating Syrian Refugees' Location Choices in terms of Earthquake Hazards and Risks", Planlama, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 506-514. tr_TR
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/8512
dc.description.abstract Turkey is both a seismically active country due to the complex combination of important fault lines passing through it, and a country of migration hosting the largest refugee population in the world. One of the concerns raised after the earthquakes of February 2023 is the possible serious impacts of earthquakes on Syrian refugees. Within this framework, this study aimed to examine the location choice processes of Syrian refugees in reference to earthquake hazards and risks. To do this, it evaluated the location choice decisions of Syrians at the city, settle-ment area and housing scales together with their social char-acteristics. The researcher's own studies on location choice, everyday life, residential satisfaction, integration and quality of life of Syrian refugees, and related research in the literature, as well as statistical data obtained from the website of the Presidency of Migration Management, were synthesized to reach hints about earthquake hazards and risks at different scales and dimensions. The findings of the study indicated that the majority of the Syrian population is dispersed in earthquake -prone cities, which increases earthquake risks for both the Syrian population and these cities. On the other hand, the lack of housing and settlement policies for Syrian refugees scattered throughout Turkish cities has forced them to take responsibility for meeting their own housing needs. This has led Syrian refugees having limited financial resources to resettle in poor/underdeveloped and/or illegal settlement areas of cities where they live in low-quality, neglected, unhealthy, and structurally problematic houses having disaster risks. Moreover, Syrians' large family size, vulnerable groups including women, children and elders, and our inadequate knowledge on Syrian refugees due to their unauthorized movements within and between cities and their unregistered groups have increased their risk of being adversely affected by earthquakes. tr_TR
dc.language.iso eng tr_TR
dc.relation.isversionof 10.14744/planlama.2023.58751 tr_TR
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess tr_TR
dc.subject Earthquake Risks tr_TR
dc.subject Earthquake Hazards tr_TR
dc.subject Syrian Refugees tr_TR
dc.subject Turkish Cities tr_TR
dc.subject Location Choice Decisions tr_TR
dc.title Reflections on Kahramanmaraş and Hatay Earthquakes: Evaluating Syrian Refugees' Location Choices in terms of Earthquake Hazards and Risks tr_TR
dc.type review tr_TR
dc.relation.journal Planlama tr_TR
dc.contributor.authorID 50343 tr_TR
dc.identifier.volume 33 tr_TR
dc.identifier.issue 3 tr_TR
dc.identifier.startpage 506 tr_TR
dc.identifier.endpage 514 tr_TR
dc.contributor.department Çankaya Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Şehir ve Bölge Planlama Bölümü tr_TR


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