SPATIALLY SEGREGATED AND SOCIALLY EXCLUDED TURKISH MIGRANTS IN NORTHERN CYPRUS: AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Authors : Semra Purkis, Hatice Kurtuluş

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Publication Date : 2013-12-11

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Abstract :This study attempts to analyse the migration flows from Turkey to Northern Cyprus since 1974 which are historically different in nature and have different significances in different periods. Out of the three migration waves that can be identified since 1974, the first and the third waves are the subjects of this study. The analysis includes integration/segregation processes of Turkish migrants in Northern Cypriot society and their position in the re-construction of economic, social and spatial division of labour which had started to disintegrate in 1963 and collapsed in 1974 after the division of the Island as two separate political geographies. This study argues that migrants were the main pillars of the re-construction of division of labour process in the Northern part of the Island and it tries to elaborate a migrant-biased perspective instead of looking through the strong strategic and political presumptions, which can easily conceal the social reality of being a migrant and their reality as a class in the society.
Keywords : İşgücü Göçü, Kuzey Kıbrıs, Sosyal Dışlanma, Mekansal Ayrışma, Nüfus Mühendisliği