Fertility analysis in Syrian refugees in the context of migration and place

This study was conducted to determine the fertility characteristics of Syrian refugee women living in the city center of Mersin. In particular, the relationship between socio-economic characteristics and fertility of Syrian refugees, living in different places such as Syria and Turkey establishing a connection migration effect on fertility of vSyrian refugees have tried to measure the changes of place. Although separate studies on migration and fertility have been included in the literature, the relationship between migration and fertility has not been studied extensively. For this purpose, a questionnaire consisting of 75 questions consisting of Demographic, Socioeconomic and Health-Fertility teatures was applied to 302 Syrian refugee women. The data obtained by SPSS were analyzed and tried to interpreted via different analyses. According to the important findings, the low level of education, negative economic conditions, lack of use of contraceptive methods and factors such as religion positively affected the fertility of women. Again, among Syrian women, child marriage is very common and this leads to high fertility among Syrian women. In addition, 4 out of every 10 women according to the findings has already given birth in Turkey.