An evaluation on the contribution to social cohesion in forced migration through employment: The case of Syrians in the context of Turkey

This study revals that employment is a functional instrument that contributes to the mechanism, considering that social cohesion is a tool that ensures the continuation of the socio-economic order of the modern-capitalist state. In social cohesion activities carried out for the employment of refugees, the state, as the most determining actor, takes the needs of the market as a criterion. Sectoral requirements at the national and global level in employment-related activities determine the work of refugees. In this process, non-governmental organizations support the state and play a facilitating role in the field. This functional aspect of employment for social integration also proposes an item, "the irony of social cohesion as a class instrument" for the agenda. But the organizational scope of the right to work may conflict with this contrast of social cohesion. The social order can be challenged, thanks to the collective resistance that employment provides to sectors of labor. However, as the disadvantage of labor groups in terms of accessing rights and services increases, as is the case with refugees, this unique aspect of employment against social cohesion begins to disappear. This situation increases the fragility of these segments and causes them to regress in social life. The employment of Syrians in our country is an important example of this theoretical perspective. In line with the interviews with the actors operating in the employment of refugees throughout Turkey and differing from each other in terms of administration, it is observed how the employment of Syrians contributes to the socio-economic order that the state tries to protect through the aim of social integration and in fact, the market rules dominate. Keywords: State, Social cohesion, Social integration, Classism, Employment, Syrians.