“Internal migration and the Inadequancy of municipality services in Izmir: The case of Asarlik”
Erkin Sarı, Haluk Görgün, Mevra Kaya, Zeynep Kara
Gediz University
Introduction
Human development depends on social, cultural and physical changes and these changes may impact us in positive or negative way. One of the most important changes in our environment are the ones related to migration (Gun et al., 2008). Human migration refers to movement of people from one country to another or one region to another. It can have an international or a national dimension: in the second case it is named ‘internal migration’ .
As an anthropological issue, internal migration and social exclusion is one of the most important topics in academic …show more content…
One is falling down agriculture and animal breeding because of violence and pressure of PKK to the villages with “village guard”. Second is made some villages empty by PKK because of the accepting village guarding system. Third is made some villages empty by Turkish security forces because of the refusing village guarding system. According to these report, 905 villages and 2.523 hamlets were emptied and 378.335 people had to leave from their homes by 1997. However, some local and foreign NGOs state that there are at least 1 million IDPs in Turkey but these numbers are not clear and are not based on proper data. (Aker et al., …show more content…
As we mentioned before, people in the Eastern part of Turkey generally forced to migrate because of economic inadeqaucy in their homecity or because of the pressure of the government. So it come up that 50% of the persons who were interviewed migrated because their village were burned and the other 50% migrated because of economic conditions with the hope to get better job chances in the Western part of Turkey. According to the official data İzmir is the third most migration receiving city in Turkey. When we asked our interviewee why they chose İzmir and especially Asarlık, all of the eight interviewees main reason to migrate to İzmir Asarlık was kinship. They come to Asarlık because their family members or relatives are also in Asarlık. It is not a surprise that the intention and hope of all the eight interviewee was to have better living conditions, more chances for a job or education. Generally all of the persons show a longing to their homecity, they talk about the natural beauty of their homecity but the bad living conditions there come into prominence which forced them to leave their
Erkin Sarı, Haluk Görgün, Mevra Kaya, Zeynep Kara
Gediz University
Introduction
Human development depends on social, cultural and physical changes and these changes may impact us in positive or negative way. One of the most important changes in our environment are the ones related to migration (Gun et al., 2008). Human migration refers to movement of people from one country to another or one region to another. It can have an international or a national dimension: in the second case it is named ‘internal migration’ .
As an anthropological issue, internal migration and social exclusion is one of the most important topics in academic …show more content…
One is falling down agriculture and animal breeding because of violence and pressure of PKK to the villages with “village guard”. Second is made some villages empty by PKK because of the accepting village guarding system. Third is made some villages empty by Turkish security forces because of the refusing village guarding system. According to these report, 905 villages and 2.523 hamlets were emptied and 378.335 people had to leave from their homes by 1997. However, some local and foreign NGOs state that there are at least 1 million IDPs in Turkey but these numbers are not clear and are not based on proper data. (Aker et al., …show more content…
As we mentioned before, people in the Eastern part of Turkey generally forced to migrate because of economic inadeqaucy in their homecity or because of the pressure of the government. So it come up that 50% of the persons who were interviewed migrated because their village were burned and the other 50% migrated because of economic conditions with the hope to get better job chances in the Western part of Turkey. According to the official data İzmir is the third most migration receiving city in Turkey. When we asked our interviewee why they chose İzmir and especially Asarlık, all of the eight interviewees main reason to migrate to İzmir Asarlık was kinship. They come to Asarlık because their family members or relatives are also in Asarlık. It is not a surprise that the intention and hope of all the eight interviewee was to have better living conditions, more chances for a job or education. Generally all of the persons show a longing to their homecity, they talk about the natural beauty of their homecity but the bad living conditions there come into prominence which forced them to leave their