Theoretical and spatial assessments of labor migrations from Turkey to MENA countries

Authors

  • Selver Özözen Kahraman Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Keywords:

MENA (Middle East–North Africa), Turkey, labor migration, international migration theories

Abstract

Middle East and North Africa countries (MENA) began to demand workforce from Turkey in 1967. As a consequence of Turkish investments in some Arab countries, such countries as Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iraq, Jordan, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait began to demand workforce from Turkey in 1977. Other Middle East countries import workforce as an outcome of their own struggles except for those counties like Libya, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Labor flow From Turkey to Middle East: (i) it includes both highly skilled and unskilled workforce, (ii) Workers mostly work in construction sectors. (iii) Imported workforce usually works in some sectors which are underrated due to state policies and tradition and in which local people are unskilled and untrained. (iv) Labor flow to Middle East has been affected by fluctuations in oil-prices and (v) It occurs from poor to rich countries, it does not occur from structurally less developed countries to industrially developed countries. In this paper is studied description with migration theoretical models the spatial-temporal distribution and characteristics of labor flows from Turkey to MENA.

 

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Author Biography

Selver Özözen Kahraman, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

 

Dr. Selver Özözen Kahraman received her BS., MS., and Ph.D. (Geography) degrees from the University of Ankara. Following graduation, she has been continued at Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University as a teaching assistant, assisted professor and currently associated professor. She was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science and Art for two terms. She is director of Human Geography at the University of Canakkale Onsekiz Mart. She is a lecturer in Human Geography whose research interests are focused on population, urban, social, electoral, and political geography. Since 2005 she has been engaged primarily in research of Turkey election and population geography. She is the author of 2 books. Her books include Population Geography of Gallipoli Peninsula and Spatial Analysis of Turkish Elections. She has more than 30 articles and conference papers. She co-directed and participated in many national projects.

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Published

2012-09-25

How to Cite

Özözen Kahraman, S. (2012). Theoretical and spatial assessments of labor migrations from Turkey to MENA countries. Journal of Human Sciences, 9(2), 1158–1178. Retrieved from https://www.j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/2298

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2012)

Section

Geography

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Uluslararası İnsan Bilimleri Dergisi ISSN:1303-5134
International Journal of Human Sciences ISSN:2458-9489
 
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