Veri Sunumu: 2016 Yılı İtibarıyla Türkiye’de Hemşehri Dernekleri
Data Presentation: Hometown Associations in Turkey as of 2016

Summary/Abstract: Rapid urbanisation and rural-urban development gap as well as neo-liberal and weakened welfare policies give increasing importance to NGOs for their positive impact on socio-economic integration of immigrants and participatory rural transformation. Hometown associations (HTAs), in particular, receive special consideration in the literature. Data on HTAs -considered the new entrepreneurs of rural development- are especially important in Turkey with continuous internal migration. This study presents a literature review of academic research on HTAs in the country and province-level data on the number of these institutions in 2016. Expectedly, HTAs in Turkey are mainly concentrated in cities with highest migrant inflows such as İstanbul, Ankara and Izmir. Highest number of HTAs, however, are established by emigrants from Sivas, Ankara and Erzurum while emigrants from Hakkari, Yalova, Kilis and Şırnak are behind lowest number of HTAs. The presented data also shed light on social capital accumulation of rural-to-urban migrants in the country

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