@article{article_687627, title={Migration, spatial complexity and Syrians in labour market in Turkey}, journal={International Review of Migration and Refugee Studies}, volume={1}, pages={23–40}, year={2020}, author={Yiğit, Emin and Kart, Elife and Demiriz, Gülhan}, keywords={Göç, Suriyeli Göçü, Göçmen Emek Gücü, Emek Piyasası, Mekan, Mekansal Kompleksite}, abstract={While the rapid migration towards Turkey since 2011 has led to a lack of surveillance and their relative invisibility, their movements and activities within the borders of Turkey have resulted in the displacement beyond the absolute control and determinability of central planning. That has led to the choice of places relatively at the initiative of Syrians in terms of the sectoral distribution of migrant labour and their decisions to settle down in different areas within Turkey. During this migration process which is not based on linear dynamics, Syrians seem to conduct their location analysis, in terms of where to settle down within Turkey, on different determinants. In fact, this process which is substantially dynamic, fluid and multi-actored for both Turkey and the Syrians in Turkey, is multi-layered based upon the factors such as developments in Syria, their time durations in Turkey or even due to some international legal determinants. All the components that determine the process have a relational integrity that is nonlinear but extremely dynamic. At this point, while Syrians participating in the production process in the place create a complex structure together with the dynamics generated by the space, a new systematic of organization also emerges.
Questioning the ‘asymmetric balance’ produced by this multi-actored and multi-layered process in space, this study aims at analysing the intersections between the socio-economic conditions of the space and the qualifications of Syrian labour force who want to produce themselves through their labour in their spatial movements, by examining macro-economic factors and Syrians’ strategies within the destinations’ macro-economic dynamics. Data was collected by using in-depth interviews with thirty-six participants in four separate spatial locations (namely Konak, Bornova, Bergama, Torbalı districts of Izmir) in order to produce answers to the main problem of this research and to achieve its main goal.}, number={1}, publisher={Gaziantep Üniversitesi}