Two Different Cultures and One Common Problem. (General Psychosocial Review of Turkish Migrants in Germany)
Two Different Cultures and One Common Problem.
(General Psychosocial Review of Turkish Migrants in Germany)
Mehmet Yilmaz
Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Warsaw 2011
Physical movement of people in a particular time and geographic space expresses the phenomena of migration which emerged in human societies since ancient times is very characteristic and typical of a social concept. Phenomena of migration hardly influences the social structure, public life and culture.(Şahin, 2001) It brings with itself so important changes and transformations. As a result of these changes and transformations, migration phenomena also expresses interactions between the cultures and adaptation process. This essay will discuss two main questions. Fist question is “ Being an immigrant cause what kind of psychological problems? “, second one is “ Why integration of Turks to German culture mention as a total failure?”
Before I tackle the psychosocial problem of Turkish immigrant in Germany, I would like to briefly review the history of this mass international migration movement from Turkey to Germany. European countries’ economies and infrastructure were serious damaged by the II World War and Germany was the one who influenced in the worst way. After the II World War there was a huge need of labor force in Germany, especially for popping up their economy.(Adigüzel, 2011) For them ensuring the economic growth was the only solution for the reduce the bad and damage effect of the war. Population of the new generations was not enough to fill this need so German Government started to adopt ‘temporary’ guest workers so called: “Gastarbeiter” all over the Europe. Between the 1955 and 1960 Germany had already adopted workers from Italy, Spain and Greece. In 1961 Turkey signed a bilateral labour recruitment agreement with Germany. Later on Turkey signed similar intergovernmental contracts for labour recruitment, such as Austria, Belgium, the
(General Psychosocial Review of Turkish Migrants in Germany)
Mehmet Yilmaz
Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Warsaw 2011
Physical movement of people in a particular time and geographic space expresses the phenomena of migration which emerged in human societies since ancient times is very characteristic and typical of a social concept. Phenomena of migration hardly influences the social structure, public life and culture.(Şahin, 2001) It brings with itself so important changes and transformations. As a result of these changes and transformations, migration phenomena also expresses interactions between the cultures and adaptation process. This essay will discuss two main questions. Fist question is “ Being an immigrant cause what kind of psychological problems? “, second one is “ Why integration of Turks to German culture mention as a total failure?”
Before I tackle the psychosocial problem of Turkish immigrant in Germany, I would like to briefly review the history of this mass international migration movement from Turkey to Germany. European countries’ economies and infrastructure were serious damaged by the II World War and Germany was the one who influenced in the worst way. After the II World War there was a huge need of labor force in Germany, especially for popping up their economy.(Adigüzel, 2011) For them ensuring the economic growth was the only solution for the reduce the bad and damage effect of the war. Population of the new generations was not enough to fill this need so German Government started to adopt ‘temporary’ guest workers so called: “Gastarbeiter” all over the Europe. Between the 1955 and 1960 Germany had already adopted workers from Italy, Spain and Greece. In 1961 Turkey signed a bilateral labour recruitment agreement with Germany. Later on Turkey signed similar intergovernmental contracts for labour recruitment, such as Austria, Belgium, the
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