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Integration of Syrian refugees

Table 1. Data and links from several sources used for the analysis of refugee integration.
Source Data Link
Eurostat Asylum quarterly report, 2017 http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Asylum_
quarterly_report
Asylum Statistics, 2017 http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Asylum_
statistics
Asylum and managed migration, 2017 http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/asylum-and-managed-migration/
data/database
ESS Latest survey for countries: Germany, 2014; http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org
Greece, 2010; Italy, 2012; United Kingdom,
2014
CIDOB and MPG MIPEX, 2014 http://www.mipex.eu/
UNHCR Population statistics, 2000–2015 http://popstats.unhcr.org/en/overview
Resettlement data, 2003–2016 http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/resettlement-data.html
Situation in Syria, May 24, 2018 https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/syria
Syria Emergency, April 19, 2018 http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/syria-emergency.html
UNOCHA Syrian Arab Republic, 2018 http://www.unocha.org/syria
Migration Policy Centre at Syrian refugee project, 2016 http://syrianrefugees.eu/
the European University
Institute
Pew Research Center Global Attitudes Surveys, Spring 2016 http://www.pewglobal.org/files/2016/07/Pew- Research-Center-
EU-Refugees-and- National-Identity-Report-FINAL-July-11-2016.
pdf
Reach - informing more Reports on Syrian conflict http://www.reach-initiative.org
effective humanitarian
action
Turkish Statistical Institute Main website http://www.turkstat.gov.tr/
NESD https://biruni.tuik.gov.tr/medas/?kn = 130&locale = en
AIDA Access to the labor market in Turkey http://www.asylumineurope.org/reports/country/turkey/
access-labour-market-0
ORSAM Main website http://orsam.org.tr/orsam/anasayfa
TEPAV Main website http://www.tepav.org.tr/en
Note: ESS: European Social Surveys, UNHCR: United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees, TEPAV: The Economic Policy Research Foundation
Of Turkey, CIODB: Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, MPG: Migration Policy Group, MIPEX: Migration Integration Policy Index,
NESD: National Education Statistics Database, AIDA: Asylum Information Database. ORSAM: Turkish Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies,
UNOCHA: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

approximately 8,000 to over 160,000 (Eurostat, 2017b), and the number of Syrian asylum applications with positive
decisions increased from 7,400 to over 100,000 (Eurostat, 2017c).

3.2. Resettlement of refugees
Resettlement can be an important option for refugees since they can be transferred from an asylum country to another
country where they might settle permanently (UNHCR, 2018c). The number of Syrian refugees sent to resettle in other
countries (e.g., Australia, Canada, and Germany) is smaller than the number of refugees living in Middle Eastern regions
(e.g., Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt) as well as those who fled but did not get a formal refugee status (Ostrand,
2015). In 2015, the EU Council approved the European Resettlement Scheme, under which more than 22,000 refugees
were offered legal and safe pathways to enter the EU. As of May 2017, over 16,000 refugees had been resettled under the
European Resettlement Scheme and the EU-Turkey statement (EU, 2017).
The United Nations has called Canada’s refugee effort, a model for the rest of the world (Ditchburn, 2016). Canadians have raised
over 110 million dollars to help refugees through private sponsorship. The Government of Canada worked with private citizens (some
of whom served as sponsors), as well as international organizations in Lebanon and Jordan to select, screen, and resettle refugees to

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