{"title":"Academic Studies on the Turkish Education of Turks in Bulgaria","authors":"Medine Derya Canpolat","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2022.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2022.0044","url":null,"abstract":"Language is an integral component of identity, and for minorities the ability to use and receive education in the mother tongue is an important right that allows the transmission of culture, creates kinship, and strengthens identity. This article examines Turkish education access for Turks in Bulgaria by reviewing Turkish academic studies about this topic, in order to identify gaps. This research uses the literature review method to investigate published articles, Master’s and Doctoral theses, books, and reports. Within the scope of this literature review the issue is discussed within the framework of the concepts of bilingualism, mother tongue, education policies, and language policies. This article presents and discusses specific research topics that are not present in the current literature available in Turkish and identifies areas of study to close gaps in the literature.","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121810555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Irregular Migration as an Inevitable Way of Life? Participant-Observation from Europe","authors":"M. Omi̇lusi̇","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2022.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2022.0042","url":null,"abstract":"In the last decades, unabated cross-Mediterranean refugee flows from Africa have geometrically expanded, despite the closure of borders and the introduction of new regulations. The number of Africans waiting in Libyan slave camps, with determination to cross the Mediterranean Sea, understandably demonstrates the depressing reality in their home countries. The state of affairs in homeland countries that compels people to expose themselves to precarious migration journeys deserves academic interrogation. This article briefly explores the contextual conditions that inspire this form of migration, mainly from Africa to Europe and draws on sociological literature about irregular migration. This article also includes accounts from formal and informal interactions with African migrants. It concludes that scrambling for greener pastures in Europe could be drastically reduced if anti-poverty policies are established in Africa.","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"61 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131775859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language Policies Directed At Borchali and South Azerbaijan Turks and Mother Tongue Problem","authors":"Museyib Shi̇rali̇yev","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2022.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2022.0045","url":null,"abstract":"Language is an important factor that constitutes national identity. Language policies have become a state structure that aims to unite peoples under state rule, as well as organize and reorganize their lives. The establishment of a political central authority that dominates the society’s thoughts through language is the most essential element of social construction processes in the new world order. This study examines the current situation of Azerbaijani Turkish in Borchali (Georgia) and South Azerbaijan (Iran) from socio-political and sociolinguistic perspectives. In this context, language policies, language planning and language rights, and monolingualism with its assimilationist characteristics, are included in the theoretical framework for the first part of this research. The second part explains the language policy implemented in Georgia and discusses the mother tongue education problems faced by minorities. Data on language policy practices in Iran, the position of Azerbaijani Turkish against the titular language, and the problems related to South Azerbaijan Turks’ right to education in their mother tongue are interpreted in the third part. In the last section, attention is drawn to the role of language policy in Azerbaijan’s multi-culturalism model, as a solution method for the aforementioned problems.","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128423802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"M. Mustafa İyi (Ed.), Kesitler: Üçüncü Kuşakla Konuşmalar, GAV Perspektif Yayınları, 2021, pp. 410, 72 TL, ISBN: 978-605-73877-0-7","authors":"Aybike Kerpişçi","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2022.0049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2022.0049","url":null,"abstract":"On the sixtieth anniversary of the labor migration from Turkey to Germany, social scientists must contemplate the position of the descendants of the guest-workers in contemporary German society as an exclusive social phenomenon. Germany has considered labor migrants to be temporary residents for a long time, therefore, avoiding enacting the legal framework to recognize their substantive membership rights in the polity. Until the amendments at the beginning of the 21st century, formal citizenship was largely inaccessible for labor migrants and their families due to the jus sanguinis (right of blood) principle. Historically, German citizenship was defined through an ethnic understanding of nationhood.","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"304 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132135643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emerging Cross-Cultural Marriage Between Indonesian Brides and Turkish Grooms","authors":"Siska Pratiwia, Daffa Ramadhani Yanuar","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2022.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2022.0043","url":null,"abstract":"Marriage migration is a phenomenon that has been increasing recently. This includes cross-cultural marriages between Indonesian brides and Turkish grooms. This study aims to prove how the marriage migration phenomenon results in increasing cross-cultural marriages. Using quantitative demographic data collected from the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Türkiye, this study explores the patterns of cross-cultural marriages between Indonesian brides and Turkish grooms with descriptive methods. In 2022, data shows that out of 87 cross-cultural marriages, 82 Indonesian brides were the leading actors in marriage migration and settled in Türkiye with their husbands. This study aims to give an early understanding of factors that encourage Indonesian brides to marry Turkish grooms and migrate from their host country. This study also examines how the potential crosscultural couple meets for the first time. Additionally, it examines Indonesian brides educational background and the Turkish language proficiency of brides who decide to migrate, including how these factors might affect their marriage. This study’s results provide details about the cross-cultural marriage landscape between Indonesia and Türkiye.","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121349028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"South Korea’s Cultural Policies towards its Diaspora Citizens","authors":"Medine Pala","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2022.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2022.0047","url":null,"abstract":"South Korean society has diaspora communities living in various countries outside the homeland and the diaspora’s reasons for departing vary. Today, South Korea’s engagement with its diaspora is increasing and the government is pursuing policies to strengthen bonds between the diaspora and the homeland. South Korea strives to make its diaspora citizens feel its presence in many fields, from media to politics, and from cultural studies to education. Through various education programs, second and third generation citizens, who have never lived in South Korea, are given the opportunity to do so. In this study, how South Korea supports its diaspora and how it performs this support are explained through six selected institutions. The research uses a literature review of previous academic studies and data from the official websites of the selected institutions. The history of South Korea’s diaspora formation and the beginning of South Korea’s cultural activities for its diaspora are discussed in the study. The functioning of these activities is discussed through selected institutions. These institutions provide support the to the diaspora in various fields, such as culture, mother tongue teaching, and education. Support given in the field of education is more than in other fields.","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131318147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparing Diaspora Policies of Turkey and Azerbaijan: “Are Common Diaspora Policies Possible?”","authors":"M. M. İyi, A. Umarova","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2022.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2022.0048","url":null,"abstract":"The term diaspora is used to describe social groups that have migrated from their homeland, and preserved and maintained their home country’s culture. In the 1990s, with the acceleration of communication, transportation, and the ease of displacement, migration movements in the world increased and modern diasporas developed transnational relations in their country of residence. Modern diasporas have attracted sending states’ attention over time and have led states to develop various policies for institution building, political participation, lobbying, and civil and social rights. This article reveals the similarities and differences in Turkey and Azerbaijan’s diaspora policies from a historical perspective and examines the kinds of activities and policies these two states currently have in the context of the Turkish world. The possibility of the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (Turkey) and the State Committee on Work with Diaspora (Azerbaijan) developing common diaspora policies is also discussed. The study’s data is collected using the document analysis method, which includes a literature review and an examination of reports from the public institutions mentioned, in order to discuss the possibility of the two countries to producing a common diaspora policy.","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121464033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"William Maley. What is a refugee? Oxford University Press, New York, 2016, pp. 253, $34.08 (Paperback), ISBN 9780190652388","authors":"Sümeyra Tahta","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2022.0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2022.0050","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, with the activity of refugees and asylum-seekers in Europe, there has been a conceptional or terminological confusion, both in Europe and far beyond. While the lifeless body of Alan Kurdi, photographed beside a capsized boat, and the danger of the migration journey can be understood through news stories, in the 21st century, the term “asylum seeker” has become as common as “refuge”. The book titled, What is a refugee? written by William Maley, clearly explains in detail the concept of refugee and offers a guide to understanding migration.","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124791815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"F. Büşra Süverdem, Yurt Dışında Türkçe Ana Dili Öğretimi, GAVPerspektif Yayınları, 2021, ss. 431, ₺72 (Mat Kuşe), ISBN 978-605-74986-7-0 [F. Büşra Süverdem, Teaching Turkish Abroad as a Mother Tongue, GAV Perspektif Publications, 2021, 431 pp., ₺72 (hardcover), ISBN 978-605-74986-7-0]","authors":"Tuğçe Genç","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2022.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2022.0041","url":null,"abstract":"Siyasal ve sosyal alanlarda ele alındığında diasporalar dil araştırmalarında zengin bir malzeme sunmaktadır. Bunun temel sebeplerinden biri dilin kimlik taşıyıcısı olmasıdır. Diasporaların ana vatan ile ilişkisi temelde ana dilleri ile kurulmaktadır. Öte yandan mesken ülke penceresinden de diaspora sakinlerinin mesken ülke dilini öğrenmesi sosyal entegrasyon için önemlidir. Dolasıyla diasporalar için geliştirilen dil politikaları ve buna bağlı olarak ana dili eğitimi imkânları önem arz etmektedir. Söz konusu politikaların ve imkânların sonuçları daha geniş perspektifte çift dillilik, dil ilişkileri, kültür ve dil aktarımı konularında önemli araştırma soruları doğurmaktadır. Sözgelimi Türk diasporası özelinde düşünüldüğünde çeşitli ülkelerde varlığını sürdüren Türk diasporasına mesken ülke tarafından uygulanan politikaların ne tür sonuçlar doğurduğu veya doğuracağı önemli sorulardan biridir. Bu bağlamda Büşra Süverdem’in editörlüğünde hazırlanan Yurt Dışında Türkçe Ana Dili Öğretimi Türkçe öğretiminin güncel durumu ele alması nedeniyle dikkat çekici bir çalışmadır.","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115559859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kirsten Forkert, Federico Oliveri, Gargi Bhattacharyya and Janna Graham, How media and conflicts make migrants, Manchester University Press, 2020, pp. 224, £80.00, ISBN: 978-1-5261-3811-8","authors":"J. Sarker","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2022.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2022.0038","url":null,"abstract":"Following the Arab Spring, massive migrations of people from the Middle East, Asia, and Africa have arrived in Europe. The humanitarian crisis was dubbed a \"Migration Crisis\" by the western media, and it was projected as a threat to Europe. The mainstream media and European states together made the displaced people ‘migrants’ who cannot deserve the natural right of a regular citizen. How media and conflicts make migrants by Kirsten Forkert, Federico Oliveri, Gargi Bhattacharyya and Janna Graham examines how ‘global conflict’ has been constructed through media representations. The book focuses on the United Kingdom and Italy, two countries that have been hit by a wave of refugees and whose citizens are wary of European institutions. The book is the outcome of an AHRC-funded research project entitled Conflict, Memory, and Displacement.","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"194 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134220903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}