Measuring fine-grained multidimensional integration using mobile phone metadata: the case of Syrian refugees in Turkey

Bakker, Michiel A. and Piracha, Daoud A. and Lu, Patricia J. and Bejgo, Keis and Bahrami, Mohsen and Leng, Yan and Balsa-Barreiro, Jose and Ricard, Julie and Morales, Alfredo J. and Singh, Vivek K. and Bozkaya, Burçin and Balcısoy, Selim and Pentland, Alex (2019) Measuring fine-grained multidimensional integration using mobile phone metadata: the case of Syrian refugees in Turkey. In: Salah, Albert Ali and Pentland, Alex and Lepri, Bruno and Letouzé, Emmanuel, (eds.) Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios: The 'Data for Refugees Challenge' Study. Springer Cham, Switzerland, pp. 123-140. ISBN 9783030125530 (Print) 9783030125547 (Online)

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Official URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12554-7_7

Abstract

The current Syrian civil war has led to a mass migration of Syrian refugees into Turkey. As the Syrian conflict has intensified and lengthened, many refugees have faced challenges integrating into their host societies. Here we introduce and evaluate different measures extracted from mobile phone metadata to study integration of refugees along three dimensions: (1) social integration, (2) spatial integration, and (3) economic integration through signatures of employment activity. We use these measures to compare integration across different regions in Turkey and find striking differences both in the distributions of these dimensions and the relations between them. Finally, leveraging the results from two general elections in Turkey in 2015 and 2018, we confirm earlier findings concerning the impact of refugee presence on voting behavior and demonstrate that we can better explain voting behavior by incorporating integration metrics.

Item Type:	Book Section / Chapter
Divisions:	Sabancı Business School
Depositing User:	Burçin Bozkaya
Date Deposited:	03 Sep 2025 15:14
Last Modified:	03 Sep 2025 15:14
URI:	https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/52060

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