Framing Syrian refugees in Turkish politics: a qualitative analysis on party group speeches

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Nermin Aydemir
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Turkish Politics ◽  
Party Group

scholarly journals A Qualitative Analysis of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions of Family Planning Among Syrian Refugees in Lebanon

2019 ◽  
pp. 346-353
Author(s):  
Jain R ◽  
Davison CM ◽  
Michael S ◽  
Durand MA ◽  
Bartels SA
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Reproductive Health Services ◽  
Family Planning Services ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Attitudes And Perceptions

Introduction: The Syrian conflict has displaced approximately 1.5 million people to Lebanon. In this setting of forced displacement, child marriage, insecurity, and limited access to sexual and reproductive health services can lead to increased rates of adolescent pregnancy, which have been linked to exacerbated maternal morbidity and mortality. Family planning can help to delay childbirth, increase time between pregnancies, and empower women to make their own reproductive health choices. To date, there is limited research on the knowledge of, and attitudes towards, family planning among Syrian refugees in Lebanon.Objective: Identify knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions towards family planning among Syrian refugees with the overarching goal of informing response strategies to improve sexual and reproductive health for displaced Syrian families in Lebanon.Methods: A thematic qualitative analysis of focus group discussions conducted in Lebanon in January 2017 by the ABAAD Resource Center for Gender Equality. The sample of 99 participants included Syrian women, girls and men.Results: While contraceptive use was generally deemed acceptable by women and girls, husbands’ and mother-inlaws’ attitudes towards fertility influenced their decisions about its use in practice. Additionally, reliable family planning services and sexual and reproductive health education were perceived as seldom available to Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Participants suggested that family planning awareness programs were needed for both parents and girls.Discussion: Changes at the policy, service, community, and individual levels are required to increase knowledge regarding and access to family planning services for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. In the interim, non governmental organizations may play a role in providing educational and supportive services for displaced Syrian girls and women.

scholarly journals The Image of Syrian Refugees in the Lebanese Press: Case of Al-Akhbar Newspaper

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 8-26
Author(s):  
Hatem El Zein
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Negative Images ◽  
Positive Representation ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Turmoil ◽  
Journalistic Practice ◽  
Significant Attention

This paper investigates how Syrian refugees are portrayed in the Lebanese press, namely in Al-Akhbar Newspaper. Although there are existing studies that focus on the media representation of Syrian refugees, they allot significant attention to negative images of Syrian refugees presented by a number of Lebanese media outlets. In addition, there is a dearth of studies that scrutinise positive representation of Syrian refugees in the Lebanese press. Owing to these problems, this paper bridges the gap in the current literature through paying further attention to the positive media representation of Syrian refugees in the Lebanese press taking the case of Al-Akhbar Newspaper. In answering the question: how Al-Akhbar depicts Syrian refugees who fled to Lebanon, this paper analyses samples of articles published in Al-Akhbar to highlight the discourse of this Newspaper relating to Syrian refugees. The paper draws on qualitative analysis to arrive at its conclusion. The findings of the paper are significant because they reveal journalistic practices and agenda towards one of the serious issues in Lebanon which suffers from political turmoil and severe economic crisis. As this paper distinguishes between what it calls antagonist and protagonist discourses in reporting Syrian refugees in the Lebanese press, it recommends paying further attention to the protagonist discourse because it reflects good journalistic practice.

Die mündliche Erklärung zur Abstimmung gemäß § 31 Absatz 1 GOBT – eine parlamentarische Wundertüte mit Potenzial?

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-887
Author(s):  
Björn-Christian Kleih
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Verbal Explanation ◽  
Party Position ◽  
Rules Of Procedure ◽  
Group Members ◽  
German Bundestag ◽  
Member Of Parliament ◽  
Party Group

According to the Rules of Procedure of the German Bundestag (”GOBT”), every Member of Parliament is granted a five minutes’ verbal explanation of vote . It is granted for nearly every kind of vote in the House . The verbal explanation is often considered a privilege to MPs going against the position taken by their group . Yet, it is also used to confirm the party position and it is abused to continue already closed debates . In either case, they can be a grab bag for both parliament’s plenum and its president; the verbal explanation’s content is only revealed when the explanation is given . A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the explanations given in the Bundestag shows that explanations from dissenters contribute quantitatively, but not to a large extent . While members of the coalition more often declare to go against their parliamentary party group, members of the opposition tend to confirm the line of their respective party . When used to reveal personal implications in the decision‑making process, the verbal explanation is meaningful and widely accepted .

scholarly journals Reading Agamben backwards: Syrian refugees, biopolitics and sovereignty in Turkey

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-120
Author(s):  
Hakan Övünç Ongur ◽  
Hüseyin Zengin
Keyword(s):  
State Of Exception ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Strong State ◽  
Turkish Politics ◽  
Authoritarian Politics

Despite the growing literature that adapts the Italian thinker Giorgio Agamben’s theory of sovereignty to the analysis of the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) increasing authoritarian politics in Turkey, this article draws attention to the theoretical pitfalls of this tendency and argues that these studies mostly fall into the trap of mistaking the consolidation of populist power with the establishment of sovereignty. Utilising the AKP’s biopolitical agenda over Syrian refugees fleeing to Turkey as a case study, we attempt to realize a theoretical twist and offer to read Agamben backwards; that is to say, instead of starting with the assumption that the AKP has established sovereignty in the country, we question whether the party is indeed able to perform a consistent type of biopolitics over the Syrian refugees that would suggest the existence of such sovereignty in the first place. Consequently, our analysis reveals that it is not an Agambenian ‘state of exception’ established by the AKP leadership in Turkey that makes recent Turkish politics look more authoritarian than ever; instead, what we witness is a continuation of a strong state tradition inherited from Turkey’s founding Kemalist era that still determines the boundaries of state–society relations in the country.

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