Multi-dimensionality of migration: the case of post-1974 immigrants in the Bahçeli village in the northern part of Cyprus

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Talat, Ayşenur

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This thesis endeavours to construct a theoretical and conceptual framework to systematically explain the multi-dimensionality of migration as well as to apply these insights to analyse an empirical case. The construct, informed by the main principles of critical realism, provides necessary conceptual tools to enable a holistic study of migration through integrating various levels of aggregation; structure and agency; multiple factors that partake in generative mechanisms; and causes as well as consequences of migration and settlement into the analysis. This study focuses on immigration and settlement within the first migration wave taking place between 1975-1980 from Turkey to northern Cyprus and on the Bahçeli village (Kalograia) as its empirical case. Critical realism informs the methodology and the methods of the study, so that deeper lying generative mechanisms are searched for by employing qualitative methods such as participant observation, oral history interviews and in-depth interviews. The endeavour to construct a multi-dimensional and multi-factorial approach to migration enables a distancing from mainstream migration theories which have a focus on economic factors and an incorporation of ‘cultural’ factors such as the ideas of ethnicity and nation into the causal analysis. Ethnic community building processes are analysed as a part of the holistic explanation of migration that also considers the ‘unintended’ consequences of long-term settlement of immigrants. The community building aspect also brings to the fore that ideas on ethnicity and nation are socially constructed and are constantly reproduced in context specific contingencies.

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Cyprus, Cyprus, Turks, Cyprus, Cyprus, Cyprus

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12618786/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/24670

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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A. Talat, “Multi-dimensionality of migration: the case of post-1974 immigrants in the Bahçeli village in the northern part of Cyprus,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2015.