ABSTRACT

The purpose of this research in this chapter is that discuss in term of education the effects of Syrian aslyum seekers who who migrated to Turkey because of civil war and political turmoil on demography and economy. Within this scope, it is aimed to be able to reveal the problems, to be able to clarify the solution proposals and to help them. Participants of this research consist of 12 people in Elbistan county of Kahramanmaraş, 6 of whom are vegetable and fruit storage, 6 of which are artisans in small industrial area. Participants were voluntarily determined by snowball sampling method. The data were collected through interviews. The data obtained in the research were analyzed by content analysis method. As a result of the research, the following information is presented, taking advantage of the information provided by the participants: (1) establishing and developing a data bank showing the demographic status of the Syrians, continuing to record and organizing the domestic migration/distribution through needs, (2) compulsory language and job security training for all working Syrian individuals, (3) inclusion of asylum seekers in vocational training, (4) adoption of the necessity of providing Syrian individuals with their own livelihoods and the employment of Syrian individuals in local businesses is a work done in this context, (5) reduction of social security burden on SMEs, which constitutes a significant part of tax and workload.