{"id":57942,"date":"2017-08-11T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/over-600000-syrians-have-returned-home\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T17:01:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T20:01:13","slug":"over-600000-syrians-have-returned-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/over-600000-syrians-have-returned-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 600,000 Syrians have returned home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[{![cemb_9_714761_2]!}]--><\/p>\n<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Over 600,000 displaced Syrian citizens returned to their homes in the first seven months of this year, the United Nations&rsquo; International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported. As per a survey conducted by the IOM with support from partner organizations, 84% of people who returned were either domestically displaced or living as refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. <\/p>\n<p>According to the IOM, 27% of respondents said they were returning to protect their property and 25% claimed the economy improved in their area. They also said they were returning because safety conditions had improved (11%), because the economy had worsened in the place they had moved to (14%), and due to social, cultural or political issues (11%).<\/p>\n<p>Last year, half of all returns were to the Aleppo, and the same holds true this year: 405,420 individuals returned to Aleppo Governorate, 27,620 to Idleb Governorate, 75,209 to Hama Governorate, 45,300 to Ar-Raqqa Governorate, 21,346 to rural Damascus and 27,861 to other governorates.<\/p>\n<p>They poll also revealed that 97% returned to their own homes. The other 3% are living with hosts, in abandoned houses, in informal settlements or rented accommodation. Approximately 80% of returnees have access to food and household items, but less than half have access to water or health services. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the returnee numbers, the IOM said displacement rates remain high in Syria. From January to July, 806,661 people left their homes &ndash; far more than the number of those who returned. Many of them were leaving for the second or third time. There are over 6 million people displaced within the country. <\/p>\n<p>The IOM adds that returns have mainly been spontaneous, but not necessarily voluntary, safe or sustainable, and cannot considered a durable solution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-191099\">George Ourfalian\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From January to July, most returnees were internally displaced or had relocated to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. The UN believes this is not a durable solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":191099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-affairs"},"wps_subtitle":"From January to July, most returnees were internally displaced or had relocated to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. The UN believes this is not a durable solution.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}