Between Mobility And Locality: Understanding The Current Turkish Transnational Community In Greece
Between Mobility And Locality: Understanding The Current Turkish Transnational Community In Greece

Author(s): Pınar Dilan Sönmez
Subject(s): Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Mobility; Locality; Turkish Transnational Community; Greece;
Summary/Abstract: From the second half of the 20th century until today, more than five million Turkish citizens immigrated to Europe as a result of particular political and economic reasons. Turkish communities in Western European countries have evolved over the years and gained a diasporic character. During the last decade, a similar process has been observed for the Turkish immigrants in Greece on a small-scale. Concerning this new social phenomenon, this paper seeks to investigate dimensions of this small-scale immigration wave from Turkey to Greece to understand what the push and the pull factors of this immigration wave are and what kind of transnational community is emerging in Greece. This paper also questions whether the Turkish community has the intention of being localized in Greece by evolving a diasporic community. The analysis will be resting upon both the questionnaire which was conducted for profiling the Turkish citizens living in Greece and existing few online sources published as well as personal observations in the field between the years 2011 and 2017.

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