On Immigrant Radicalism and Immigrant Nihilism - Thoughts on Migrations from the Middle East to Turkey
On Immigrant Radicalism and Immigrant Nihilism - Thoughts on Migrations from the Middle East to Turkey

Author(s): Mehmet Evkuran
Subject(s): Politics, Geography, Regional studies, Security and defense, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: migration; Turkey; Middle East; immigrants; radicalism; nihilism; Syrian refugees;
Summary/Abstract: No matter the reason, recent immigration from the Middle East to Turkey is not just a 'displacement'. It will have a deep and lasting impact on people. Migrant individuals and groups are forced to rethink their perspectives on the world and their personal values deradicalizing themselves as a consequence. This radical position is usually a result of the strife affecting their peace and comfort at home. Migration, if it is caused by civil war, or other traumatic events, may lead to the reversal of values or increased radical returns to their cultural and ethical values and beliefs. An immigrant who is deliberating between nihilism and radicalism has to try various ways to solve this dilemma.

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