Village associations as migrants' formal organizations : an empirical study in Mamak Ankara
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Date
2003Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
This thesis attempts to understand village associations as migrants’ formal
organizations primarily based on field research carried out in Ankara, Mamak. It
aims to contribute to urbanization and migration studies in Turkey by describing
village associations’ organizational structure and the motivations of establishment
and values attached to village associations by members who established them and
the interests represented through the association. By utilizing the studies on
migrants’ hemşehri networks, Turkish associational life and urbanization studies,
this thesis highlights that migrants form formal networks that they join by their own
choices and utilize associations for their own interests. Village associations in this
thesis provide a case where migrants establish networks not only on patrimonial and
clientalistic networks, but also on formal institutional grounds and that this formal
ground has diverse establishment motivations. The description of this case is achieved through in-depth interviews in field research and a statistical analysis of
village associations, where the former serves to describe the values of the founding
members and the membership motivations, and the latter serves to describe the
institutional presence of village associations in Ankara.
Keywords
village associationsAnkara/Turkey
Mamak
rural-to-urban migration
migrants’ formal organizations