Migration, citizenship and naturalization : Turkish immigrants in Canada and Germany
Author(s)
Advisor
Bölükbaşı, Saime ÖzçürümezDate
2014Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
Very few studies among migration, citizenship and nationalization literatures
focus on the individuals and their ideas about recent migration motivation,
naturalization decisions and conceptualization of citizenship. Based on in-depth
interviews with highly skilled and business Turkish immigrants (HSBTI) in Canada
and Germany, the study seeks the recent reasons of people to move and tries to
understand whether the recent migration motivation of people is affected by
citizenship and migration policies of host countries. Additionally, the study intends to build a typology for understanding the meaning of citizenship in the literature and
to include individuals into the discussion by seeking how the individuals (mainly
immigrants) define the concept citizenship in recent times. Lastly, the study tries to
find out why some immigrants decide to receive the citizenship of country of
destination while others do not. The study also tries to understand whether
citizenship and migration policies of host countries as well as citizenship
conceptualization of immigrants affect their decision-making process.
Keywords
Defining citizenshipnaturalization decision-making process
recent migration motivation
high skilled and business Turkish immigrants
Germany and Canada
Turkey