ULUSÖTESİ GÖÇÜN ÖZNESİ KİMSELERİN YER İLE KURDUKLARI İLİŞKİYE DAİR KISA BİR TARTIŞMA

Abstract

Bu makale, ulusötesi göç bağlamında yer ile insan arasında kurulan ilişkinin, modern ve postmodern toplumlarda nasıl farklı biçimlerde kavramsallaştırıldığını, kuramsal bir yeniden çerçeveleme denemesi olarak ele almaktadır. Çalışma, ampirik bir saha araştırmasına dayanmamakta, ulusötesi göçün öznesi kimselerin yer ile kurdukları ilişkiye dair literatürde geliştirilen başlıca yaklaşımların eleştirel ve ilişkisel bir okumasını sunmaktadır. Çalışmanın temel amacı, literatürde çoğunlukla birbirine karşıt biçimde ele alınan özcü yaklaşımın ürettiği yersiz yurtsuzlaşma kavramı ile özcülük karşıtı anlayışın geliştirdiği yeniden yerliyurtlulaşma kavramlarını birlikte düşünerek, küresel mekân tahayyülünün “yer” kavramını nasıl dönüştürdüğünü ortaya koymaktır. Makale şu soruya yanıt aramaktadır: Küresel mekân tahayyülü, ulusötesi bağlamlarda yer ile kurulan ilişki, literatürde sıklıkla karşıtlıklar üzerinden kurulan kavramsallaştırmaların ötesinde, nasıl ilişkisel ve süreçsel biçimde yeniden düşünmeyi mümkün kılar? Bu çerçevede çalışma, yerin ne tamamen çözülen ne de değişmeden kalan bir yapı olarak kavranabileceğini; aksine, farklı kuramsal yaklaşımlar içinde zamansal, mekânsal ve toplumsal süreçler aracılığıyla sürekli olarak yeniden üretildiğini savunmaktadır. Makalenin özgün katkısı, ulusötesi göç literatüründe çoğunlukla karşıtlık içinde ele alınan bu kavramları, birbirini dışlayan kategoriler olarak değil, yer ile kurulan ilişkiyi, birlikte ele alan eşzamanlı süreçler olarak kavramsallaştıran bütünlüklü bir kuramsal çerçeve önermesidir.

Keywords

• Yerinden Edilmiş Kimse
• Yer
• Özcü Yaklaşım
• Yersiz Yurtsuzlaşma ve Yeniden Yerli Yurtlulaşma

A BRIEF DISCUSSION ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SUBJECTS OF TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION AND PLACE

Abstract

This article addresses the relationship established between place and people in the context of transnational migration as a theoretical attempt to reframe how this relationship is conceptualized differently in modern and postmodern societies. The study is not based on empirical fieldwork; rather, it offers a critical and relational reading of the main approaches developed in the literature concerning how subjects of transnational migration relate to place. The primary aim of the study is to consider together the concept of deterritorialization, produced by essentialist approaches, and the concept of reterritorialization, developed within anti-essentialist perspectives—concepts that are most often treated as oppositional in the literature—in order to demonstrate how the global spatial imagination transforms the notion of “place.” The article seeks to answer the following question: How does the global spatial imagination make it possible to rethink the relationship with place in transnational contexts in a relational and processual manner, beyond conceptualizations that are frequently constructed through oppositions in the literature? Within this framework, the study argues that place can be understood neither as a structure that is entirely dissolved nor as one that remains unchanged; rather, it is continuously reproduced through temporal, spatial, and social processes within different theoretical approaches. The article’s original contribution lies in proposing a comprehensive theoretical framework that conceptualizes these notions—often addressed in opposition within the transnational migration literature—not as mutually exclusive categories, but as simultaneous processes that together shape the relationship with place.

Keywords

• Displaced Persons
• Place
• Essentialist Approach
• De-Territorialization
• Re-Territorialization

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