RuralUrban Mobilities in Turkey: Socio-spatial Perspectives on Migration and Return Movements
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2018
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Öztürk, Murat
Topaloğlu, Beşir
Hilton, Andy
Jongerden, Joost
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Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Based on original data this article discusses ruralurban mobilities and the contemporary employmentmigration 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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Rural-Urban Mobilities, Peasants, Precarity, Counter-Urbanization, Turkey
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15
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Q2
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Q1
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20
Issue
5
Start Page
513
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530