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Internal mobility of the foreign born in Turkey

Journal article published in 2012 by Ibrahim Sirkeci, Jeffrey H. Cohen, Neriman Can
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Abstract

Migration scholarship is dominated by studies of international human mobility. The investigation of internal mobility of immigrants remains a low priority among students of migration (Ram and Shin 1999: 150). And while the theoretical divide between international and internal migration is known (Skeldon 2006), the volume of internal migration is unquestionably larger than that of the international movements (see, for example, Deshingkar (2006), Skeldon (2006) on China and India). Despite some unique exceptions in the last decade or so, studies of Turkish migration mostly focus on Turkish emigration to Europe and ignore the importance of Turkey as a destination country and the internal migration of the foreign-born in Turkey (Akgunduz 1998, Kirisci 2000, 2007, Parla 2007, Sirkeci, Cohen and Yazgan 2012). In this descriptive study, we address this gap and analyse internal migration patterns of the foreign-born population in Turkey.