RAISD D4.2 Synthesis Report about Vulnerability Profiling & Vulnerability Contexts

E. Nezih Orhon, Tayfun Dalkılıç, Elif Akcakaya, All Partners
2021 Zenodo  
Forced displacement is a phenomenon that has developed due to different reasons throughout the world and has affected large masses of people throughout history. Forced migration, which is caused by many reasons such as humanitarian crises, political conflicts, discrimination and violence, causes a variety of vulnerabilities to arise in various aspects. Although vulnerability creates effects at different social levels of the society, it can be severely experienced at the individual level, and
more » ... refore vulnerability can be experienced as different as the number of individuals in a society. This indicates a subjective aspect of vulnerability. This subjectivity also depends on the fact that vulnerability is the result of a combination of the effects of different factors in a context. Therefore, a detailed examination of the vulnerability contexts that pave the way for the emergence of vulnerability will make it possible to reach synthesized information on the specific challenges of Forcibly Displaced People (FDP). In line with the foregoing, the aim of this study is to create a novel definition of the Vulnerability Context (VC) that can be applied to different contexts. Therefore, a conceptual definition of the vulnerability context falls short in terms of both applicability and adaptability to different contexts. This highlights the need for an operational definition of the vulnerability context. Within the scope of the study, the data provided in the reports of the partner countries were decisive in the process of developing a novel definition of VC. The definition of VC is based on two fundamental dynamics; socio ecological levels and dimensions that operate at each social level. The operational definition consists of two parts; the first part consists of research questions on the factors that contribute to the emergence of vulnerability at each social level and the interrelationships between these factors and other social levels. The second part functions as a guide that exemplifies how the interrelations betwee [...]
doi:10.5281/zenodo.6683836 fatcat:jsdinx7mizf25i4fbupfmfurp4