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

Lülüfer Körükmez

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

Year 2013, Issue: 29, 67 - 91, 01.06.2013

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

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