SOSYO-KÜLTÜREL BİR TECRÜBE OLARAK TÜRK DIŞ GÖÇÜ: AMERSFOORT (HOLLANDA) ÖRNEĞİ

This study aims at investigating the sample of the Turks having left from the town of Bogazliyan and settled in Amersfoort (Netherlands) as a socio-cultural action creating an immigrant socio-cultural life with an intention of permanency and having a design of future and past. That the experience having begun as a demographic action with an economic motive was turned into immigration by the woman and the action and actor were brought together will be evaluated under the light of data obtained from the sample of the immigration from the town of Bogazliyan towards Amersfoort. In order to comprehend the experience of immigration and Turkish immigrant society well, this study considering immigration a socio-cultural action assumes an internally inward look as a methodological tendency. Instead of separating experience and actor which reflect into academic perception, such an approach mentioned above aims at comprehending thoroughly the immigration process as the actor’s experience and socio-cultural life of the immigrants with all the basic dynamics. Based on the thorough interviews and attended observations made in the context of Turkish immigrant society living in Amersfoort, the transformation of a demographic movement into a socio-cultural action in a way it will create a Turkish immigrant society, and the woman as the essential actor of this transformation will be revealed.