Publication date: November 2021
The Day After issued a report entitled “ The Opinions of Syrians about Citizenship and Identity“, to identify opinions of a large sample of Syrians, males and females, both inside and outside the country about the concept of active and equal citizenship the debate about the relationship between national identity, sub-identities, what degree it enforces equal rights and duties among all citizens regardless of their origins became important between the representatives of civil society and political stakeholders, to identify what degree these sub-identities influence equality in political, economic, cultural, and civil rights.
The report was based on a survey conducted in the middle of 2021, included interviews with 2,651 men and women inside and outside Syria from various religious, national, age and educational backgrounds by a group of fifty-two field researchers, covering the majority of the Syrian governorates and the main countries where Syrians sought asylum
The report presents how the Syrians express their own social identity and what are their priorities in the mid to long term, the opinions about equal political rights and how identity politics could affect electoral preferences during the transitional period. In addition, the survey presents the opinions of the sample about equality in the right to work and economic development, the right of safe, voluntary, and dignified return, and equality in cultural, linguistic, and civil rights, including the right of women to give Syrian nationality to their children or the right to reinstate Syrian nationality to those who have been deprived of it for ethnic and political reasons. Also, the survey attempts to measure to what extent the surveyed group identities and biases influence their opinions about what the basic sources of legislation in the state should be. The report ends with a group of recommendations regarding the political and constitutional negotiation process, civil activism, and analytical and theoretical research.
