Zorunlu Göç Zor(un)lu Kabul: Ceylanpınar Afgan Göçmenleri Üzerine Sosyolojik Bir Araştırma

Forcedimmigration, which seemed to have taken place due to different reasons and in various formsthroughoutthehistority of humanity, is a multifacetedphenomenon.Beside its legal, socioeconomic andpolitical consequences, it mostprobably has culturalconsequences, too. Identity problem, withdifferingviewsandpoliciesabout how tohandle it, is a permanentfeature of force dimmigration. Theimmigrantsare not only affected by the dominant groups in then ew homeland but also affect then ewhomeland at different level sand in differentforms. After the irforce dimmigration, the Afghani-Ozbeks were allocated to Ceylanpinarcity of Sanliurfa Governate. This study will focus on their reliationship with thecity folk vis-a-vistheprocess of preserving and rebuilding their identityand how and at what level their integration or membership wasrealized with them. Inconclusion, it was observed thatboth of these two groups, neither of which explicitly rejected the other, did not willingly opted for integration and unification. Thebelief of “distinctiveness” and “foreignness”, coupled with a strong emphasis on membership, made the immigrant sintrovert, whil ethe bold border lines drawn betweenthe “other” precluded the social integration of the two groups.