Paper Title
Socio-Economic Causes Of Migration: The Case Of Turkey
Abstract
Migration is a very old phenomenon, which means that the person is born, the people he lives with, the people he leaves. There are many compulsory or optional reasons for addressing the person. Migration has both positive and negative consequences for both the abandoned place and the migrated and settled region. The general type of migration is the direction of migration from rural to urban; when abroad, it is towards the rich countries of the poor countries. Even this type of development shows that there are many socio-economic factors on the basis of people's migration. The reasons, intensity and date of each country or society may vary depending on its specific characteristics. In Turkey, the acceleration began in the 1950s, internal migrations, increasing with each passing day and continued until today. Migrations from rural settlements to cities are called rural migrations and constitute a significant proportion of internal migration movements. When the migration from the village to the city cannot be prevented, the population is decreasing each year in rural areas. For example: in Turkey, in 1960 while 68.1%, in 1980 to 56.1%, and to 22.7% in 2012 and decreased to 22% as of 2014. Especially the young population is decreasing significantly and the increase in the number of the elderly causes agricultural production to decrease. It has been determined that some provinces in Central Anatolia, Western Anatolia and Eastern Anatolia, which have a large number of rural population, give more migration than the provinces with low rural population. Similarly, out-migration countries in the past that Turkey has become an immigration country in the last way. In particular, the most significant refugee movements in recent years that "immigration from Syria to Turkey" is very remarkable. Indeed, migration from Syria to Turkey, is much higher than migration to Europe. Syrians, especially as a place of political migration to prefer Turkey, said that based on religious and geographical reasons. As a result; In this study, it was historically part of Turkey's efforts to remove the map of migration both domestic and overseas; In addition, the reasons and effects of migrations were analyzed in order to shed light on the future economic and socio-cultural policies. In this study, literature review, econometric and statistical study results and expert opinions obtained by qualitative data analysis are included.
Key Words - Migration, International Migration, Consequences Economic-Social of Immigration from Turkey, JEL:J1, J11,N35