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Main Patterns in Migration Novels

Author(s): Burak Çavuş
Subject(s): Turkish Literature, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: International Migration; Migrant Literature; Turkish Novel;

Summary/Abstract: In this study, the novels published between 1960-1990 and dealing with the migration of workers to Europe were examined in a contextual context. The process of immigration has been examined within the framework of the basic lines in the novels, through the concepts of gastarbeiter (guest worker), auslander (foreigner) used in the identification and naming of immigrants and connotations attributed to Turkish identity was conducted. The argument is that how they are defined is effective in policies and approaches towards immigrants and that these policies and approaches are determinative in the literary process. At this point, the effect of naming definitions on us and the other relationship within the framework of migration has been focused; there are inferences about the issue of migration and immigration through the novels examined on the basis of the relationship between society and literature. Among these, it has been determined that dominant problems such as discrimination, poor working violations, racism and marginalization are central to these works. Thus, the basic themes that constitute the migration literature, which is the aim of the study have been reached and the factors that are effective in transferring the sociological and historical reality have been brought the fore.

  • Issue Year: 7/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 291-317
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Turkish