Disaster Risk Awareness: The Turkish Migrants Living in Northern Italy

In this study, we analysed the socio-demographic characteristics and disaster risk awareness of the Turkish migrants living in northern Italy. We initiated the study with an extensive face-to-face questionnaire with 544 individual respondents. With the help of the questionnaire, we gathered informat...

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Published inSustainability Vol. 13; no. 18; p. 10140
Main Authors Atun, Funda, Fonio, Chiara
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.09.2021
Subjects
Communication
Decision making
Demographics
Diplomatic & consular services
Disasters
Emergency communications systems
Emergency preparedness
Focus groups
Immigrants
Meetings
Migrants
Migration
Municipalities
Perceptions
Planning
Political power
Qualitative research
Questionnaires
Religion
Research methodology
Risk
Social capital
Sociodemographics
Students
Italy
Turkey
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Summary:In this study, we analysed the socio-demographic characteristics and disaster risk awareness of the Turkish migrants living in northern Italy. We initiated the study with an extensive face-to-face questionnaire with 544 individual respondents. With the help of the questionnaire, we gathered information on the socio-demographic structure of the Turkish community living in the area and the immigrants’ disaster experience, their level of disaster preparedness and disaster risk awareness, and their potential behaviour during an emergency. Additionally, we conducted focus group meetings in Milan, Lecco, Como and Varese with 49 migrants living in the region. In the focus group meetings, we discussed the migrants’ awareness of disasters and potential behaviour patterns during emergencies. We collected the informative booklets and past event reports prepared by civil protection centres and municipalities and used them in focus group meetings to collect participants’ opinions. The results show that the migrant communities’ disaster risk awareness is low, but their capacity to adapt to suddenly changing conditions is higher than presumed.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su131810140