School Integration of Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey

In fact, using both the 2009 Syria Family Health Survey and the 2018 TDHS, we show that the educational distribution of the Syrian refugees in Turkey is similar to that in Syria in 2009—adjusting for the birth cohorts and for the distribution of origin Syrian provinces of the refugees in Turkey. [...] These schools followed the curriculum of Syrian schools in the Arabic language of instruction, using Syrian teachers and volunteers.10 As the number of refugees 9 In the 5-year strategic plan of MoNE for the 2019–2023 period, the school enrollment rate is set forth as 75 percent by the year 2023 (MoNE, 2021c). [...] In the pooled sample of natives and Syrian refugees in the 2018 TDHS, over three-quarters of the Syrian refugee population are in the bottom wealth quintile (Dayioglu et al., 2021). [...] 22 since Syrian refugees in Turkey are disproportionately from the northern part of the country, we make an adjustment using the information in the 2018 TDHS regarding the birth province of Syrian refugees.23 In particular, after we calculate the educational distribution for each province in Syria using the 2009 SFHS, we weight them using the province of birth distribution of Syrian refugees in Tu. [...] 5.3 Understanding school enrollment gaps in the context of child labor and marriage In this section, we repeat the analysis in Section 5.1 using paid employment and marriage as dependent variables to understand the relationships between the native–refugee schooling gaps reported in the previous sections with the gaps in child labor and marriage.