Confronting Compassion Fatigue: Understanding the arc of public support for displaced populations in Turkey, Colombia, and Europe

3 In Turkey, although temporary accommodation centres were built at the onset of the Syrian war, only 1.36 per cent of the 3.5 million Syrians in the country lived in these centres before the February 2023 earthquake (which increased the percentage to 2 per cent); the vast majority live in urban, periurban, and rural areas across the country. [...] The total number of refugees in Turkey, which was 58,000 in 2011, quickly exceeded 3 million with the arrival of Syrians.5 This transformed Turkey into the country hosting the largest number of refugees in the world.6 The number of Syrians who have entered Turkey has now exceeded 5 million, of whom approximately 3.3 million have remained in the country and the rest have moved on to other destinati. [...] Venezuelans in Colombia Beginning in 2015, the gradual deterioration of the economic, security, and political situation in Venezuela triggered the mass displacement of Venezuelans to neighbouring countries in the region. [...] In Central and Eastern Europe, the memory of being part of the Soviet Union and the perception of Russia as a common enemy was a key element in the strong solidarity towards Ukrainians. [...] The regularisation of Venezuelans in the country in 2021 also aimed to reduce the large proportion of migrants living in the shadows.