GÖÇ İLE GELEN ULUSLARARASI ÖĞRENCİLERİN SOSYAL UYUM VE TOPLUMSAL KABUL SÜRECİ
SOCIAL COHESION AND SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE PROCESS OF INCOMING INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Summary/Abstract: The concept of migration is as old as humanity. This concept constitutes a process which affects the whole dynamics of social, cultural, political, and economic factors. It is an important concept that cannot be dealt with just as physical displacement of people. Social interaction between communities living in harmony with the migration community seems to affect all society. In this process, educational institutions have an important role in terms of social cohesion. Young people continue their university education during the process of acceptance by the community, and adapt to the social life experience an important socialization process. These experiences of migration into a divergent cultural environment may lead young people to encounter different problems in the socialization process. In this study, our aim is to identify what influenced the aspects of the political and cultural dynamics of Syria immigration during the Civil War and international university students’ social cohesion and social acceptance process. According to this aim, focus group interviews will be conducted with the Syrian students studying in Osmaniye Korkut Ata University. In the interviews, the things they have gone through after the migration and their current life standards are evaluated and data is collected about applications, behaviors and attitudes in the university they study. In the end, the hindrances and eases they experience in due course of societal acceptance and social adaptation, because of the fact that they are students coming after the migration as well as being international students, are set forth.

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