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Social class and the ability to restore pre-displacement class status significantly determine forced migrants' decisions regarding onward mobility, with successful restoration leading to voluntary immobility and failure leading to irregular migration or involuntary immobility. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To understand how social class and capital convertibility influence decisions to remain or migrate onward among Syrian refugees in their first countries of asylum.

September 5, 2026International Migration ReviewOpen Access

Social Class and Forced Migrants’ Secondary/Onward Mobility Decision-Making: Syrians in Turkey and Lebanon

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SKSinem Kavak MHMo Hamza

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Qualitative study reveals that pre- and post-displacement social class shapes onward mobility decisions among Syrian refugees, highlighting class-dependent capacity for social reproduction.

Key Points

To understand how social class and capital convertibility influence decisions to remain or migrate onward among Syrian refugees in their first countries of asylum.
Conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with Syrian forced migrants in Turkey and Lebanon.
Applied a Bourdieusian theoretical framework assessing economic, social, and cultural capitals, habitus, and social space to examine class status re-establishment.
Disparities between pre- and post-displacement social class status dictate secondary mobility trajectories, mediated by the convertibility of capital within the host country's social space.
Refugees who successfully re-established livelihoods matching their pre-displacement status predominantly chose voluntary immobility, whereas those unable to recover their class standing faced involuntary immobility or resorted to irregular onward migration.

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Kavak et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9bd3e16b95aff0620eb14a https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261478058

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September 5, 2026International Migration ReviewOpen Access

Social Class and Forced Migrants’ Secondary/Onward Mobility Decision-Making: Syrians in Turkey and Lebanon

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Authors

SKSinem Kavak MHMo Hamza

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Overview

Qualitative study reveals that pre- and post-displacement social class shapes onward mobility decisions among Syrian refugees, highlighting class-dependent capacity for social reproduction.

Key Points

To understand how social class and capital convertibility influence decisions to remain or migrate onward among Syrian refugees in their first countries of asylum.
Conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with Syrian forced migrants in Turkey and Lebanon.
Applied a Bourdieusian theoretical framework assessing economic, social, and cultural capitals, habitus, and social space to examine class status re-establishment.
Disparities between pre- and post-displacement social class status dictate secondary mobility trajectories, mediated by the convertibility of capital within the host country's social space.
Refugees who successfully re-established livelihoods matching their pre-displacement status predominantly chose voluntary immobility, whereas those unable to recover their class standing faced involuntary immobility or resorted to irregular onward migration.

Cite This Study

Kavak et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9bd3e16b95aff0620eb14a https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261478058

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