Abstract:

When people relocate places, they not only change a place in a geographical sense, but also migrate into countries and societies with psycho-cultural closeness where they can find the peace they seek. In terms of countries that accept immigrants, the integration of newly arrived immigrant groups into the dominant society and their socio-cultural integration is important. In the modern era, Western countries, which accept the largest immigrant population, have applied different applications such as assimilation, adaptation and integration, respectively, to ensure socio-cultural integration. At the current stage, the issue of the compatibility and integration of immigrants with the dominant society has been the most discussed issue or topic. Although pluralism and multiculturalism emerge as rising value in today's Western world, it shows that the relevant policies will not provide endless opportunities for the differences to live in parallel forever and that the integration process of immigrants will spread over time and eventually integrate them into the dominant group. This study acknowledges that if the institutions of the countries that accept immigrants are functioning properly, immigrants can generally apply to various practices in order to adapt to the dominant group. this reality, the focus will be on cultural distance, which is one of the important factors affecting the socio-cultural participation of immigrants in the societies they migrated to. This issue will have tried to be evaluated sociologically in the example of immigrants who immigrated or took refuge in Türkiye. In particular, an answer will be sought to the question of what role the cultural distance will play in the integration of immigrants into the societies they migrated to and what kind of cost the cultural distance will impose on the country that accepts the immigrants.

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