Londra’daki Türkiyeli çocukların ulusaşırı mekânlarda duygusal coğrafyaları
Emotional geographies of Turkish children in transnational spaces in London

Summary/Abstract: In recent years, the study of children geographies has attracted interest thanks to child studies. Children geographies have an interdisciplinary approach, which diversifies perspectives on the concepts of child and childhood. It also bears traces of different paradigms within the study of human geographies. Besides, the rise of mobility, owing to new developments in communication and transportation, has influenced migration studies. Transnational social fields and transnational spaces have come to refer to a phenomenon in which social and, to a great extent, individual elements transcends borders whose influence upon migration has diminished with time. Migrant children constitute the principal element of this phenomenon. In this context, the aim of this paper is to point out the relationship between the concept of transnational spaces and children of the Turkish speaking community in London. It also aims to come to know emotional geographies of children, allowing them to speak for themselves. In this sense, it is used the semi-structured interview and participant observastion to represent the emotional geographies of Turkish children who has diverse and mixed emotion about given places.

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