A New Exploited Class: Syrian Refugees
A New Exploited Class: Syrian Refugees

Author(s): Hasan Boynukara, Uğur Altıntaş
Subject(s): Gender Studies, General Reference Works, Labor relations, Present Times (2010 - today), Migration Studies, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Turkey; migration; Syrian refugees; job opportunities; gender;
Summary/Abstract: There is more than one definition for ‘migration’. Depending on how one handles the definition of the approach also changes. Reaching a consensus on a perfect definition of migration is almost impossible, since it has too many aspects to consider. In a very broad sense, migration can be defined as the process of the movement and the adaptation of people who move from one place to another for a set of reasons, including but not limited to fulfilling their needs, over a specific period of time (Brown & Moore, 1970). Whichever the definition of migration is taken into account, it is an event that changes almost everything both in the lives of migrating people and the people on the route. In a way, understanding the diachronic changes in history is achieved by looking at the migrations; people arriving at a place tend to change and cause some changes in the culture of the people that dwell in that place which creates a “Demographic Whirlwind” which can be both an opportunity or a threat (Morland, 2014, p. 8).

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