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Rural‒Urban Mobilities in Turkey: Socio-spatial Perspectives on Migration and Return Movements

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  • Murat Öztürk
  • Beşir Topaloğlu
  • Andy Hilton
  • Joost Jongerden

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Based on original data, this article discusses rural‒urban mobilities and the contemporary employment‒migration relationship. Starting with the observation of reduced rural population but maintained family-farm numbers, it engages with multiple issues, including rural employment, the process of urban migration, settlement in the city, the relation of migrants to the rurality and (return) counter-migration. It supports the thesis that migration is not so much about a ‘movement from one place to another’, the classical migration definition, and more about a coupling of practices (related to mobilities, residence, employment, etc.) with places over time. Thus, migration and counter-migration are conceptualized as socio-spatial strategies, conceptualized as ‘multi-place living’ or ‘dual life’, which are based on variable engagements with rural farming, urban wage labour and return movements (for retirement, refuge, etc.). The newly emergent and growing dual/multi-place structures that result from this are re-shaping village life in particular, expressed in various ways, such as in a changing village demography and function.

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  • Murat Öztürk & Beşir Topaloğlu & Andy Hilton & Joost Jongerden, 2018. "Rural‒Urban Mobilities in Turkey: Socio-spatial Perspectives on Migration and Return Movements," Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(5), pages 513-530, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:20:y:2018:i:5:p:513-530
    DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2018.1406696
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