Karadeniz'de Çay ve Fındık Üretiminde Göçmen İşgücünün Etnikleşme Süreçleri
Ethnic Processes of Migrant Workforce in Tea and Hazelnut Production in Black Sea

Summary/Abstract: One of the main problems brought by the increasing refugee and immigration problems in the world and Turkey in recent years is the widespread migration workforce working in informal sectors. Especially in Turkey, the agriculture sector is gaining a new character where cheap labor from various regions and countries such as Southeast, Georgia and Syria is increasingly important, instead of producing based on family labor. This situation brings about a great transformation in the labor characteristics of tea and hazelnut farming in the Black Sea as it is in other parts of Turkey. While the cheap migrant labor is increasing in production the agricultural areas of the Black Sea are becoming places where different countries and ethnic belongings like Kurds, Georgians and Syrians come together. In this study,the interactions between labor and ethnic contact, encounter and dissociation processes of this workforce were discussed. It has been found that perceptions, discourses and practices related to the processes of ethnicity as well as class positions shape the disadvantages that the migrant workforce is exposed to.

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