AMERİKALI TÜRKLER

Öz

Bu makalede, Osmanlı İmparatorluğunun son zamanları ve Türkiye Cumhuriyeti tarihi boyunca Türklerin Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’ne olan göç eğilimleri incelenmektedir. Bunu yaparken de göç eden insanların sosyo-ekonomik arka-planları ve bu arka-planların ABD’deki yaşama uyum sağlama üzerindeki etkilerini irdelenmektetir. Ayrıca ABD’nin göçmen politikaları ve yasalarının, Türklerin göç hareketleri üzerindeki etkileri, diğer göçmen grupları ile paralelliklere/farklılıklara dikkat çekilerek açıklanmaktadır. Son olarak ta Türklerin ABD’deki dağılımı ve çok kültürlü/çok uluslu Amerikan toplumundaki sosyo-ekonomik durumu tartışılmaktadır

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Amerikalı Türkler, Göç, Uyum, Türkiye, ABD

Turkish Americans

Öz

This article examines Turkish immigration waves to the United States, which began in the last years of the Ottoman Empire and continued throughout the republican era. This is done by exploring the backgrounds of the immigrants and by investigating the role of these backgrounds in the integration process. It also looks at the role of American immigration laws in Turkish immigration waves by comparing and contrasting Turkish immigration with immigration of other groups. Finally, the article lays out the distribution of Turkish Americans in the United States and investigates their socioeconomic status in the multicultural and multiethnic American society

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Turkish Americans, Immigration, Integration, Turkey, USA

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