Abstract:

Migration is not a phenomenon of the present day. Since the earliest times, people have migrated from one place to another because of some various reasons. During some periods within the historical process, it had been witnessed that migration movements increased and people flooded from one continent to another continent. Amount and speed of this movement which also continues at present has been highly increasing. From South to North, from East to West, people are moving towards more attractive places in order to inhabit and gathering densely in some certain locations. The ones who determine the policy of the states are trying to get the migration under control on the one hand with the barriers they are establishing against the migration movements which they faced with, on the other hand they are overlooking the migration in order to provide cheap labor force that they need. National culture has begun to be questioned with the increasing of the immigrants and policies of multiculturalism have become the center of debate. New otherings and problems arising from these otherings have begun to be experienced within the social life in which migrants, minorities, refugees and local citizens come across.

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