Abstract:

The fact that individuals or societies who have decided to immigrate receive information from previous nomads, contact them, and establish various relations networks during and after the migration process helps to avoid some risks that immigrants will experience and reduce costs. It is clear that like every immigrant community, Iranian refugees also go through similar processes. People affected by the policies implemented by the Islamic Republic of Iran prefer the migration route. Denizli is one of the satellite cities where transit refugees are settled and determined within the framework of Turkey's migration policies in the Iranian migration movement, where Turkey is a transit country. However, due to the changing immigration policies of the United Nations and other countries, Iranian immigrants could not go to third countries and were left in limbo in Denizli. On the other hand, recent migrations also take place with the intention of settling in Turkey. The chaotic situation in question brought along a process of social cohesion in Denizli, sheltering for many years and creating a subpopulation in the city. This study aims to reveal the social capital and relationship networks of Iranian refugees, who sheltered in Denizli and formed a sub-population with heterogeneous contents, during the pre-migration, migration process and post-migration social cohesion processes. For this purpose, qualitative research method was used, and data were collected through in-depth interviews with 14 Iranians, who were reached through snowball sampling in total, through a semi-structured interview form. In the results of working the existence of differences in social capital and relationship networks of Iranians who migrated to Denizli many years ago and Iranians who migrated recently has been determined and it has been revealed that these differences affect the social adaptation process.

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