TÜRKİYE’DEN BELÇİKA’YA DAMAT GÖÇÜ VE PSİKOLOJİK ETKİLERİ
Groom Migration from Turkey to Belgium and Psychological Effects

Summary/Abstract: A great number of woman and man migrate to Belgium from Turkey as part of family unification by marring young people of Turkish origin who live in Belgium every year. These people are given name as brides and grooms by immigrant Turks settled in Belgium. The women’s coming to the husband’s house is suited to the rule of marriage and ancestor-husband centered or neolocal settlement in patriarchal Turkish society. However settlement of man’s in the house of wife reverses the rule of marriage and settlement place, settlement place becomes matrilocal or woman-centered settlement. The groom and his wife who brought him to Belgium cannot dope out this change. Matrilocalization of the settlement results in psychological and social destabilizing consequences especially for man. Man loses autonomy and remains dependent on the language and economic issues. This situation is defined as the “person’s disappearance” in which the man has lost his social status. In the end many grooms suffer psychologically. Different clinical conditions such as depression, anxiety disorder, degeneracy of gender identity, psychotic disorders are observed.

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