📄 Here is the link for the paper:

"Hostility and Avoidance: Refugee Preferences in the Face of Local Attitudes and Politics"

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#Refugees #Migration #Turkey #Germany #SyrianRefugees #LocalAttitudes #Belonging

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🔍 This study contributes to a growing body of research showing that:

✅Refugees prioritize psychological well-being.
🏛️ Local attitudes and politics matter.

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What’s behind this?

Our content analysis shows that refugees' main concerns:

❗Exclusion
❗Discrimination
❗Anxiety
❗Social isolation

Hostile attitudes aren’t just unpleasant, they also erode a basic sense of belonging.

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Economic factors like job availability do matter, but their influence is secondary to the local political climate and public attitudes.

Potential for feeling belonging outweighs material gain.

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Contrary to assumptions, family ties don’t significantly drive local destination choices.

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Refugees are strongly deterred by local hostility, both from public attitudes and from political leaders.

🏙️Local destinations seen as unwelcoming are avoided, even if they offer jobs or social benefits.

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📊 We used a choice-based conjoint experiment with 3,000+ Syrian refugees in 🇹🇷 and 🇩🇪, plus content analysis of over 500 qualitative responses in 🇹🇷.

Our core finding?

Local attitudes matter more than economic conditions or social networks.

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The refugees' journey does not end when they arrive in the host country. We explore what drives their local destination choices :

➡️ Local attitudes & policies
➡️ Economic conditions
➡️ Social networks