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Afyonkarahisar Sandıklı ilçesine bağlı Alacami köyündeki bir öğretmenin hikayesi: Ali Özşahin
(Bilkent University, 2025) Aktaş, Berkant; Demirci, Furkan; Özşahin, Bengisu; Tatar, Nehir; Sadıkoğlu, Esra Ayça
Bu çalışmada, öğretmenlik kariyerinin büyük bir kısmını köy öğretmeni olarak sürdürmüş Ali Özşahin’in Afyonkarahisar’da kırsal bir göçmen köyü olan Alacami’deki öğretmenlik deneyimleri üzerinden köy eğitiminin sosyal, kültürel ve dilsel dinamikleri incelenmiştir. Özşahin’in öğretmenlik yaptığı dönemde göçmenlerin kültürel adaptasyonu, Türkçe dil eğitimi ve köydeki modernleşme süreçleri ele alınmıştır. Ayrıca, Köy Enstitüleri ve öğretmen okullarının eğitimdeki yeri değerlendirilerek kırsal bölgelerde öğretmenliğin zorlukları ve toplumsal etkileri anlatılmıştır.
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British adolescents are more likely than children to support bystanders who challenge exclusion of immigrant peers
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-08-08) Gönültaş, Seçil; Ketzitzidou Argyri, Eirini; Yüksel, Ayşe Şule; Palmer, Sally B.; McGuire, Luke; Killen, Melanie; Rutland, Adam
The present study examined British children’s and adolescents’ individual and perceived group evaluations of a challenger when a member of one’s own group excludes a British national or an immigrant newcomer to the school (Turkish or Australian) from participating in a group activity. Participants included British children (n = 110, Mage in years = 9.69, SD = 1.07, 44 girls, aged 8–11) and adolescents (n = 193, Mage in years = 14.16, SD = 0.92, 104 girls, aged 13–16), who were inducted into their group and heard hypothetical scenarios in which a member of their own group expressed a desire to exclude the newcomer from joining their activity. Subsequently, participants heard that another member of the ingroup challenged the exclusionary act by stating that they should be inclusive. Children’s and adolescents’ individual evaluations of the bystander who challenged the social exclusion of an immigrant peer were more positive than their perceived group evaluations, recognizing that groups are often exclusionary. Only adolescents but not children differed in their individual and perceived group evaluations in the social exclusion of British peers. When the newcomer was an immigrant peer, adolescents were more likely to evaluate the challenger positively in both their individual and perceived group evaluations compared to children. Further, children, compared to adolescents, were more likely to reason about social and group norms to justify their evaluations only when the excluded peer was an immigrant but not when the excluded peer was British. Adolescents were more likely to reason about fairness, rights, and equality. The findings indicate that exclusionary group norms surrounding immigrants begin in childhood. Interventions that focus on changing group norms to be more inclusive could be effective in reducing prejudicial attitudes toward immigrants in childhood. Copyright © 2022 Gönültaş, Ketzitzidou Argyri, Yüksel, Palmer, McGuire, Killen and Rutland.
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Consumer acculturation as a dialogical process: case studies from rural-to-urban migrants in Turkey
(Association for Consumer Research, 2006) Sandıkçı, Özlem; Ekici, Ahmet; Tarı, Berna
Consumer acculturation has received considerable research attention (e.g. Gentry et al 1995; Metha and Belk 1991; Oswald 1999; Penaloza 1989, 1994). Drawing mainly from literatures on acculturation, socialization and learning, these studies develop models that explain how consumers acquire and use consumption skills and practices while interacting with a new culture. Most of these studies concentrate on immigrants coming from less developed countries to the developed countries such as the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, and investigate their adaptation to Western consumer cultural environment. Prominent in this literature is the model of acculturation strategies proposed by Berry (1980), which perceives acculturation as a linear process with four possible outcomes of assimilation, integration, separation, and marginalization. However, a few studies challenge the assimilationist view of acculturation and demonstrate that consumers can move between different social worlds without necessarily conforming to one culture (Askegaard, Arnould, and Kjelgaard 2005; Ger and Ostegaard 1998; Oswald 1999; Penaloza 1994). This perspective, which Askegaard et al (2005) refer to as ‘postassimilationist acculturation research’, regards consumer acculturation as a dynamic and multidimensional process that includes ongoing cultural negotiation or “culture swapping.” We aim to contribute to the existing literature by studying acculturation as a “dialogical process that involves a constant moving back and forth between incompatible cultural positions” (Bhatia 2002); we focus on rural-to-urban migrants’ experiences in a less developed country, Turkey. We seek to understand how these migrants negotiate and articulate their cultural identities through consumption practices related to the body and physical appearance.
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The far-right, immigrants, and the prospects of democracy satisfaction in Europe
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017) Just, Aida
This paper examines the consequences of the far-right in shaping foreign-born immigrants’ satisfaction with the way democracy works in their host country. It posits that while electorally successful far-right parties undermine democracy satisfaction, the magnitude of this effect is not uniform across all first-generation immigrants. Instead, it depends on newcomers’ citizenship status in their adopted homeland. The analyses using individual-level data collected as part of the five-round European Social Survey (ESS) 2002–2012 in 16 West European democracies reveal that the electoral strength of far-right parties in a form of vote and seat shares won in national elections is indeed powerfully linked to democracy satisfaction among foreign-born individuals. However, this relationship is limited to foreign-born non-citizens, as we have no evidence that far-right parties influence democracy attitudes among foreign-born individuals who have acquired citizenship in their adopted homeland.
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Muslim-Turkish children in Germany: sociocultural problems
(Center for Migration Studies, 1996) Onder, Z.
The integration of Muslim-Turkish children into the German school environment and more importantly, into the larger context of German society, is fraught with difficulties. A host of sociocultural problems hinders their acceptance into the German culture, chief of which is the conflict that comes with being torn between two cultures. Prejudices that lead to their isolation also contribute to their failure to gain acceptance. These cause personal and social identity problems among the children, torn as they are between the Islamic value-norm system and the German environment.
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Overlooked and understudied? a survey of current trends in research on adult english language learners
(Sage Publications, Inc., 2008) Mathews-Aydınlı, Julie
This article provides a synthesis and review of 41 recent research studies focusing on the population of adult English language learners (ELLs) studying in nonacademic contexts. It notes the unique qualities and importance of understanding the English-language needs of this population, provides a critical overview of the existing literature, and concludes that both more research and research from diverse methodological perspectives are necessary.
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Political regimes and immigrant party preferences
(SAGE, 2019) Just, Aida
This article examines how political regimes in migrants’ origin countries influence their party identification in adopted homeland. I posit that immigrants are more likely to acquire partisanship in their host country if they came from a nonparty autocracy as opposed to a party-based autocracy or democracy. Moreover, among partisans, immigrants are less likely to identify with a left-wing party if they came from a communist regime. Finally, these effects are particularly pronounced among foreign-born individuals from highly authoritarian regimes. The analyses using Geddes, Wright, and Frantz Autocratic Regimes data along with individual-level data from the European Social Survey (ESS) 2002-2017 in 19 established democracies confirm these expectations. These findings have important implications for debates on immigrant political integration, party politics, and the prospects of electoral stability in contemporary democracies.
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Race, ethnicity, and political behavior
(Oxford University Press, 2017) Just, Aida; Thompson, W. R.
Whether as a consequence of colonialism or more recent international migration, ethnic diversity has become a prominent feature of many contemporary democracies. Given the importance of ethnicity in structuring people’s identities, scholars have sought to incorporate ethnicity in their models of people’s political behavior. Studies focusing on individual support for group interests among ethnic minority members find that higher socioeconomic status generally leads to a reduced emphasis on ethnicity in forming individual political opinions. However, this relationship is often considerably weaker among ethnic minorities with frequent experiences of discrimination, pessimistic assessments of equal opportunities in a country, and social pressures from group members to comply with group norms. Research also shows that, in comparison to majority populations, members of ethnic minorities are generally less active in politics, more likely to use contentious forms of political action, and support left-wing political parties that promote minority interests. Key explanations of differences between ethnic minorities and majorities in Western democracies focus on the importance of individual and group resources as well as political empowerment via representation in policymaking institutions, usually enabled by higher shares of minority populations within electoral districts.
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Sevinç Çokum'un göç romanı 'Çırpıntılar'
(1991) Aytaç, Gürsel
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The evolution of a concept: “vatan” from hometown to shared place
(2024-07) İşler, Özlem Elif
This thesis examines the perceptual transformation of the concept of homeland in the Ottoman Empire from the early modern period to the early twentieth century. This study seeks answers to the questions of how the concept of homeland was transformed from a place where one was born and raised in the early modern Ottoman Empire to a place to die for by gaining a sacred and powerful meaning in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It also argues that this political, social and spatial transformation of the concept of homeland cannot be explained only by the emergence of nationalism and Turkist policies. This thesis argues that the idea of the homeland came to the forefront as a shared living place, and shared homeland (vaṭan-ı ʿumūmî) in the nineteenth century and strengthened as a place where all the historically integrated constituents of the Ottoman Empire (ittiḥād-ı ʿanâṣır) could live and struggle together. This study demonstrates that one of the most important reasons for the strengthening of the emphasis on the shared homeland was the migration towards the remaining borders of the Ottoman Empire, Anatolia, as a result of the great territorial losses that began at the end late nineteenth century and continued at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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The immigration of Russian people to Turkey: The Nakashıdze Family
(Bilkent University, 2019) Ashfaq, Mohammad Hamza; Nusrat, Aayan; Mammadov, Rufat; Wagha, Shihana; Admaney, Daniyal
Bu makalede Rus göçmenlerinin istikrarsız Rus İmparatorluğundan Osmanlı İmparatorluğuna geçişinin nedenleri ve teşvikleri araştırılacaktır. Aynı zamanda Osmanlı İmparatorluğunun Türkiye Cumhuriyetine geçişi sonucu oluşan güç dengesi değişiminin Rus göçmenlerinin üzerinde yaratığı güçlüklere de odaklanılacaktır. Bütün bu etkenler referans sistemindeki Nakashidze adlı hanedanın bakış açısından tartışılacaktır.