Before and After: Determinants of Labor Migration from Armenia to Turkey and Migrant Networks

Abstract

This article focuses on the role of migrant networks in migration flow from Armenia to Turkey after dissolution of The Soviet Union. The aim of the investigation is to find the different configuration of networks and how those networks serve to migration process. Those configurations including interpersonal and inter-ethnic ties channel migrants and non-migrants both in a particular place in transnational space. The findings that are derived from a fieldwork conducted in Istanbul shows the role and importance of networks both before and after the migration

Keywords

• Migrant networks, Armenia, Turkey, Ethnic bounds and boundaries

ÖNCESİ VE SONRASI: ERMENİSTAN’DAN TÜRKİYE’YE İŞGÜCÜ GÖÇÜNÜN NEDENLERİ VE GÖÇMEN İLİŞKİ AĞLARI

Abstract

Bu makale, Sovyetler Birliğinin yıkılmasından sonra başlayan Ermenistan’dan Türkiye’ye göç akışında, göçmen ağlarının rolünü konu almaktadır. Çalışma, farklı ağ konfigürasyonlarını ve bu ağların göç sürecinde nasıl etki gösterdiğini açıklamayı hedeflemektedir. Kişiler arası ve etnik gruplar arası bağları da içeren göçmen ağları, göçmenler ve göçmen olmayanları, hem belirli bir yerde hem de ulus-ötesi alanda birbirine bağlar. İstanbul’da yapılan alan çalışmasından elde edilen veriler, hem göç öncesi hem de sonrasında göçmen ağlarının önemini açıkça ortaya koymaktadır

Keywords

• Göçmen Ağları, Ermenistan, Türkiye, Etnik bağlar ve sınırlar

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